Monday, Sep. 07, 1959

Married. Jacqueline Gay Hart, 21, comely New Jersey debutante, whose unpremeditated flight to Chicago six weeks ago on the eve of a lavish church wedding aroused a nationwide manhunt; and Stanley Noyes Gaines, 25, her forgiving fiance; in a secret ceremony in the Harts' Short Hills, NJ. home.

Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich.

Died. Bohuslav Martinu, 68, Czech composer and onetime visiting professor of composition at Princeton, who turned out a flood of operas (The Miracle of Our Lady), symphonies (Fantaisies Symphoniques) and chamber music, saw one of his operas (The Marriage) become a U.S. TV hit; near Basel, Switzerland.

Died. Jake Allex Mandushich, 72, Serbian-born World War I U.S. Army corporal who was decorated by seven nations, won the Medal of Honor at Chipilly Ridge, France in 1918 when as a noncom in the 131st U.S. Infantry he stormed a German machine-gun nest, bayoneted five Germans, captured 15 more; in a Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago.

Died. Edward Eagle Brown, 74, pace-setting U.S. banker who as president (1934-45) and board chairman (1945-59) of Chicago's First National Bank helped carry Chicago's wobbly economy through the Depression, was one of the first to promote term loans, played an important part in shaping today's more flexible U.S. monetary system; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An intellectual maverick for a banker, courtly Edward Brown, read a balance sheet or James Joyce with equal recall, was a lifelong Democrat who was hauled in by Chicago cops in 1912 while campaigning for Woodrow Wilson, in 1944 heartily endorsed a fourth term for F.D.R.

Died. Charles R. Blyth, 76, founder-chairman of the San Francisco investment banking house of Blyth & Co., who started his firm in 1914 with a loan on his car, hired on jobless financial wizards during the Depression, came to operate offices in 24 cities with assets of better than $35 million; in Hillsborough, Calif.

Died. Thomas Sivewright Catto, Lord Catto of Cairncatto, 80, who as governor (1944-49) of the Bank of England presided over its transition from a private to a nationalized institution, for years worked in such close collaboration with famed Economist Lord Keynes that the two were dubbed Lords Catto and Doggo; in Holmbury Saint Mary, England.

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