Friday, Feb. 24, 1961

Married. Janet Ellen Wagner Frank, 29, photographer's model and widow of Lawyer Julian Frank, who was killed, along with 33 others, in a plane crash 13 months ago when a dynamite bomb exploded near his seat in an unsolved murder-or-suicide mystery that has prevented the payoff to his widow of $997,500 in insurance; and Joseph F. Rafferty, 37, newly appointed San Francisco sales manager of the Phillips-Van Heusen shirt company; in New York City on St. Valentine's Day.

Married. Joseph Alsop, 50, fatidic columnist; and Susan Mary Jay Patten, 42, wealthy, widowed Paris socialite; in Chevy Chase, Md.

Died. Laurence Owen, 16, pretty, perseverant U.S. and North American women's champion figure skater; in a jet plane crash that killed 73 people, including Laurence's mother, sister Maribel and the 16 other members of the U.S. figure skating team on its way to the world championships in Czechoslovakia; on a farm near Brussels (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Patrice Hemery Lumumba, 35, goateed, bespectacled Batetela tribesman who was a mission school student, postal clerk, embezzler and beer salesman before he became a successful demagogue and the first Premier of the Congo; said to have been murdered by bush villagers after he "escaped"' from jail; in an as yet undisclosed place in Katanga province (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Henry Baker, 54, slight, mild-mannered onetime dental technician and professional burglar whose 26-year career was capped in January 1950, when he and ten teammates smoothly robbed the Brink's armored car service office in Boston's old North End of $2,775,395 for the largest haul in U.S. history, went to jail for life with seven others in 1956; of bronchial pneumonia; in a Norfolk (Mass.) prison hospital.

Died. Nita Naldi, 59, who as a girl named Donna Dooley in a New Jersey convent dreamed of becoming a new Theda Bara, was plucked from a Broadway chorus line by John Barrymore in 1919 and within five years was vamping Rudolph Valentino in such passionate pantomimes as Blood and Sand and Cobra; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Billed as a distant relative to Dante's Beatrice, she had an answer for women who asked the stock question: "How did it feel to be kissed by Valentino?" Said she: "He was a real heman, but the poor darling had myopia. On him, the squint looked irresistible."

Died. Clarence Arthur ("Dazzy") Vance, 69, whose blistering fast ball earned him a place in baseball's Hall of Fame and whose off-field training notions ("Raise all the hell you want but don't get caught") and on-field capers, such as getting trapped on third base along with two Brooklyn Dodger teammates, won the hearts of Flatbush fans; of a heart attack; in Homosassa Springs, Fla. No mere comedian, Dazzy led the National League in strike-outs seven years in a row, fanned a total of 2,045 batters, racked up a 28-6 record during his best year, 1924, and pitched a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies in 1925.

Died. General Sir Bernard Paget, 73, stern soldier who retired in 1946 after a heroic career in both World Wars, brilliantly executed the British evacuation of Norway in 1940, devised revolutionary live-ammunition training techniques while commander in chief of the Home Forces from 1941-43, saw his system vindicated under fire as Middle East commander from 1944-46; of a heart attack; at his home in Petersfield, England.

Died. Admiral Richmond Kelly ("Terrible") Turner, 75, painstaking amateur rose grower and ruthlessly efficient World War II strategist who helped transform the science of amphibious warfare while profanely masterminding a bloody, threeyear, 3,000-mile march across Pacific beaches from Guadalcanal to Okinawa; of suffocation when he choked on a piece of chicken; in Monterey, Calif., where he had lived since his 1947 retirement. Among the honorary pallbearers: old Comrades-in-Arms Chester Nimitz and Raymond Spruance.

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