Friday, May. 01, 1964

Born. To Francis Beardsley, 48, chief warrant officer at the Navy postgraduate school at Monterey, Calif., and Helen North Beardsley, 34: their second child, second daughter; in Carmel, Calif. The couple's 19 other children (he had ten, she eight from previous marriages) all voted on a name for the new Beardsley, came up "unanimously," with Helen Monica.

Married. Millicent Phoebe Hearst, 25, United Nations correspondent for Hearst Headline Service, granddaughter of the late William Randolph, and Raouf Boudjakdji, 31, Algerian delegate to the U.N.; in a civil ceremony in Manhattan.

Married. Miriam Makeba, 32, gaunt South African Xosa tribeswoman whose plaintive folk chants have made her a top U.S. nightclub and recording star; and Hugh Masekela, 25, South African trumpeter and her arranger; she for the third time; in Stamford, Conn.

Died. Eddie Dyer, 63, manager of last St. Louis Cardinals team to win a pennant (1946), discoverer of Stan ("the Man") Musial in 1938; of gallbladder complications; in Houston.

Died. Gerhard Domagk, 68, German chemist who in 1932 discovered that sulfonamides cured infection, thereby creating the first "wonder drugs"; of a heart attack; in Konigsfeld, West Germany. Domagk was research director for I. G. Farben when he found some textile dyes stopped infections in mice, successfully applied a dye to his daughter's infected finger, later isolated the active ingredient, a sulfa compound he called prontosil--an achievement that won him a 1939 Nobel Prize, which Hitler, piqued with the Nobel committee at the time, forced him to refuse.

Died. Otto Eggers, 81, Manhattan architect, onetime associate of John Russell Pope, who with his partner Daniel Higgins, supervised construction of Pope's two most famous designs after his sudden death in 1937: Washington's National Gallery of Art and Jefferson Memorial; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Died. Anson Conger Goodyear, 86, first (1929-39) president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury, N.Y.

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