Friday, Mar. 27, 1964

Marriage Revealed. Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, 34, brother of former King Peter II, now a London insurance broker; and German-born Princess Kira of Leiningen, 33; he for the second time; at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, "some time last year," in a ceremony that the publicityshy prince refrained from announcing until eight days after Kira bore him a son March 11.

Died. Brendan Francis Behan, 41, professional Irish tosspot and boyo terrible, semiprofessional writer of wit and distinction, a pudgy, rumpled, onetime juvenile terrorist for the I.R.A. who staggered into the limelight in 1958 with his scabrous reform-school memoir, Borstal Boy, two brilliantly nihilistic plays of Dublin low jinks, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, but despite faint, repeated vows to stay "off the gargle" subsequently squandered his fireworks in binges from Los Angeles to London; of diabetes, jaundice and acute alcoholism; in Dublin.

Died. The Rev. Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, 58, Jesuit priest aboard the carrier U.S.S. Franklin when it was set afire by Kamikaze pilots off Japan on March 19, 1945, who gave last rites, organized rescue parties, carried ammunition from blistering magazines, helped make it back to port with the heaviest casualty list in U.S. naval history (432 dead, 1,000 wounded), winner of the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain; of a ruptured aorta; in Worcester, Mass.

Died. Norbert Wiener, 69, M.I.T. mathematician, cyberneticist, linguist; of a heart attack; in Stockholm (see SCIENCE).

Died. Nicholas Joy, 80, London-born character actor whose hair turned grey at 22, giving him a half-century to play an all-purpose, Anglo-American Blimp--the lean, mean subspecies--in more than 100 plays and films, notably The Philadelphia Story (Hepburn's papa), The Iceman Cometh (the Boer War bore), sitting in so many stage wing chairs puffing Corona Coronas that he developed phlebitis, occupational ailment of English clubmen; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia.

Died. Frederick Hudson Ecker, 96, longtime (1929-51) president and chairman of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., world's largest, with 1963 assets of $20 billion (and father of Frederic W. Ecker, head of Metropolitan from 1953 until a year before his death three weeks ago at 67), who signed on as a $4-a-week mail boy in 1883, rose to direct all Metropolitan investments, most notably Metropolitan apartment communities, from Parklabrea in Los Angeles to Manhattan's StuyvesantTown; in Manhattan.

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