Friday, Dec. 03, 1965

Married. Patty Duke, 18, Hollywood's youngest Oscar winner (at age sixteen, for The Miracle Worker), now star of her own TV series (The Patty Duke Show); and Harry Falk Jr., 32, assistant director of TV's Trials of O'Brien; he for the second time; in North Hollywood.

Died. William Casey Marland, 47, West Virginia's drinking, brawling young Democratic Governor from 1953 to 1957, whose antics split the party and led to his defeat in two subsequent bids for a Senate seat, after which he dropped out of sight, suddenly reappeared last March as a Chicago cab driver and explained that he was attempting to "begin from the beginning" after years of alcoholism; of cancer of the pancreas, shortly after accepting a comeback position as administrative assistant to West Virginia Manufacturer (National Mattress Co.) James F. Edwards; in Barrington, Ill.

Died. Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, 66, political liaison man for the Chicago crime syndicate, who first made it to the top of the mob as a labor racketeer (dairies, laundries) in the 1930s and 1940s, in recent years lived luxuriously in Chicago and Key Biscayne, Fla., dodging appearances before Washington crime committees; of a heart attack, four hours after his arrest on a perjury charge; in Chicago.

Died. Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah, 70, progress-minded ruler of oil-rich Kuwait; of congestive heart failure; in Kuwait (see THE WORLD).

Died. Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, 74, sharpshooting medical administrator, an Indiana surgeon who proved his organizational skill during World War II as head of U.S. medical operations in Europe, went on to whip the chaotic Veterans Administration medical service into shape and then become head of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield health-insurance plans, all the while waging a running battle against unethical practice, including fee splitting, unnecessary surgery and exorbitant prices; of cancer; in Washington.

Died. Dame Myra Hess, 75, British concert pianist, who passed unnoticed when she made her debut amid the flamboyant virtuosos of the early 1900s, but later established herself as one of the leading musicians of her day, bringing graceful proportion and artistry to the works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, during World War II earned the admiration of blitz-weary Londoners and the Order of Dame Commander for inaugurating a six-year series of noontime concerts in the National Gallery; of a heart attack; in London.

Died. John Taber, 85, longtime (1923-62) Republican Congressman, from New York's Finger Lakes district, an unyielding economizer who, as ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, consistently pared large chunks from Administration budgets, concentrating on "taberizing" New Deal legislation and foreign aid; of congestive heart failure; in Auburn, N.Y.

Died. Katharine Susan Anthony, 87, bestselling biographer of some of history's more notable women, a onetime Wellesley College geometry teacher and psychiatry buff who enthusiastically delved into such psyches as those of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette and Louisa May Alcott, caused a furor with her 1945 The Lambs, in which she theorized that Essayists Charles and Mary Lamb turned to writing as a sublimation of their incestuous love; following a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, 89, Bavarian-born widow of King Albert, mother of ex-King Leopold III and grandmother of reigning King Baudouin, long revered for the heroism and charity she displayed in both World Wars and esteemed as one of Europe's leading art patrons, but whose unfortunate espousal of left-wing causes in the last ten years brought embarrassment to the government and ultimately exasperated a long-tolerant public, earning her the derisive label "Red Queen"; of a heart attack; in Stuyvenberg Palace, near Brussels.

Died. Angelica Balabanoff, 96, high priestess of socialism, a Ukrainian landowner's daughter turned revolutionary at age 19, confidante to Lenin and First Secretary of the Third Communist International, who broke with Communism in 1921, exposing her former heroes (My Life as a Rebel, Impressions of Lenin), but remained an unshaken believer in socialism, thereafter lending her support to Italian Social-Democrat Giuseppe Saragat and the U.S.'s Norman Thomas; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Rome.

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