Monday, Mar. 21, 1955

Married. Betty Hutton (real name: Betty June Thornburg), 34, brash, bouncy Hollywood dancer-songstress (The Greatest Show on Earth); and Alan Livingston, 38, Capitol Records vice president; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke), 25, eye-filling, Hungarian-born cinemasiren (The Assassin) and sometime playmate of Britain's fun-loving Marquess of Milford-Haven; by William Wordsworth, 42, London publicity agent, great-great-grandson of the English poet; after three years of marriage, no children; in London.

Died. Jorge Pasquel, 48, millionaire Mexican sportsman, who successfully lured south some of U.S. baseball's top postwar talent to his Mexican League, e.g., Brooklyn's Mickey Owen, New York's Sal Maglie, St. Louis' Max Lanier; when his private plane crashed with five others aboard; in the mountains near Valles, 225 miles northwest of Mexico City.

Died. Sri Sri Sri Sri Sri Tribhubana Bir Bikram Jung Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shum Shere Jung Deva, 49, King of Nepal, whose proposed (but never accomplished) visit to the U.S. last November caused a stir because he planned to bring both of his queens; of a coronary occlusion, in Zurich.

Died. Rear Admiral William Reynolds Purnell, U.S.N. (ret.), 68, veteran Navy cruiser and battleship skipper between world wars, member (with Physicist Vannevar Bush, Harvard President James B. Conant, Army Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer) of the nation's top policy panel on military use of atomic weapons during the three wartime years before Hiroshima; of pneumonia; in Palo Alto, Calif.

Died. Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, Nobel Prizewinning Scottish-born bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928; of a Coronary thrombosis ; at his home in London (see MEDICINE).

Died. Hannibal Choate Ford, 77, noted engineer-inventor, who helped the late Elmer Sperry perfect the Gyro-Compass (1911), during and after World War I developed the world's first mechanical control-computer for naval gunfire; of arteriosclerosis; in Kings Point, L.I.

Died. Princess Clementine Albertine Marie Leopoldine of Belgium, 82, publicity-shy younger daughter of Belgium's late Leopold II, great aunt of Belgium's current King Baudouin, mother of prosperous Businessman-Prince Louis Napo leon, 41, current Bonapartist pretender to the throne of France (as great grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother); of a heart ailment; in Nice, on the French Riviera.

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