Friday, Aug. 06, 1965

Married. William J. Lederer, 53, author (Ensign O'Toole and Me, A Nation of Sheep), former collaborator of Eugene Burdick (see below); and Ruth Corinne ("Corky") Edwards Lewis, 38, co-publisher with Lederer of the Honolulu Beacon, local monthly humor magazine; both for the second time; in San Francisco.

Married. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, 55, New York City's third-term mayor; and Barbara Joan Cavanagh, 36, United Shoe Machinery Corp. heiress and longtime friend of the mayor's late wife Susan; he for the second time; by Francis Cardinal Spellman, in Manhattan. Following a ten-day honeymoon on Marco Island, Fla., the Wagners will live in a duplex suite at Manhattan's Hotel Carlyle while apartment hunting, relegating the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, to official use only, since they would have to move out when his term ends in December and, as Mrs. Wagner says, "Any bride wants to decorate her own home."

Divorced. By Nancy Sinatra, 25, Frankie's daughter, fledgling singer and cinemactress (For Those Who Think Young): Thomas Adrian Sands, 27, former teen idol; on uncontested grounds of cruelty (he didn't want a family); after five years of marriage; in Santa Monica.

Died. Eugene Leonard Burdick, 46, bestselling novelist and University of California political science professor, a former Rhodes scholar who methodically ground out Cassandra-like tales of political science fiction (The Ugly American and its forthcoming sequel, Sarkhan, both written with William J. Lederer; Fail-Safe, written with Harvey Wheeler; and The 480); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in San Diego.

Died. Harry Sayles Conover, 53, one-time fashion model and founder of New York's successful Conover Modeling Agency, who built a $2,000,000-a-year business on the "well-scrubbed look" of the American coed type for whom he invented such names as Chili Williams, Candy Jones and Choo Choo Johnson, lost his license in 1959 after his models complained that he had withheld their fees; of a heart attack; in New York City.

Died. Alvin Cushman Graves, 55, U.S. nuclear physicist and director of the Test Division at Los Alamos, a pioneer in atomic research, who nearly lost his life in a laboratory accident in 1946, when he absorbed 200 roentgens of radiation (he suffered loss of hair, a cataract and temporary sterility), in 1948 became director of the U.S. atomic testing program in the Pacific, later headed a long series of experimental atomic projects including Operation Ivy, the 1952 top-secret thermonuclear explosion at Eniwetok; of a heart attack; in Del Norte, Colo.

Died. Constance Bennett, 59, petite, slender (5 ft. 4 in., 97 Ibs.) Hollywood glamour girl of the 1930s, daughter of Actor Richard Bennett (and elder sister of Joan), who made a bit-part debut at 16 as a flapper in Samuel Goldwyn's Cytherea, later ruled the Pathe lot as its highest-paid star (a peak of $30,000 a week) playing a succession of sophisticated heiresses and emancipated businesswomen (Sally, Irene and Mary, This Thing Called Love, the Topper films); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fort Dix, N.J. Herself an astute businesswoman, she followed her movie career with successful ventures in the cosmetic and fashion industries, was married five times, since 1946 to U.S. Air Force Brigadier General John Theron Coulter, commander of the New York Air Defense Sector.

Died. Henri Daniel-Rops (real name: Henri Petiot), 65, teacher, renowned traditionalist historian of the Roman Catholic Church and member of the French Academy, whose more than 70 books, including a seven-volume History of the Church of Christ, provoked a lively renaissance of religious interest in anticlerical France, while his sprightly Jesus and His Times became France's most widely read book (more than 500,000 copies sold since 1945) and won him the title "le bestseller"; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Aix-les-Bains, France.

Died. Dorothy Johnston Killam, 66, U.S.-born widow of Canadian Financier Izaak Walton Killam and beneficiary of his $150-million estate, an ardent baseball fan who in 1956 tried unsuccess fully to save the Dodgers for New York by offering to buy the team for $6,000,000; of a heart attack; at her villa in Cap d'Ail, France.

Died. Junichiro Tanizaki, 79, dean of Japanese letters (The Key, The Makioka Sisters), the son of a Tokyo rice broker, known as the Orient's D. H. Lawrence for his 119 novels of sex and marriage in which he portrayed men as willing slaves, often fetishists, to the power of the weaker sex; of a heart attack; in Yugawara, Japan.

Died. Harrison Earl Spangler, 86, onetime Cedar Rapids attorney, Republican National Committee Chairman (1942-44), a compromise choice during World War II of the sharply divided G.O.P., who turned out to be ineffectual in the job, stayed on as a committee member until 1952; of pneumonia; in Portland, Ore.

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