Friday, Nov. 13, 1964

Married. Mickey Spillane, 46, the poor man's Marqviis de Sade (70 million copies of ten sex-and-violence novels), who carried it to a logical conclusion last year when he played his Mike Hammer in Hollywood's The Girl Hunters; and Sherri Malinou, 23, bit-part TV actress; he for the second time; in Malibu Beach, Calif.

Divorced. By Peggy Lee, 44, blondy, bluesy jazz singer: Jack del Rio, 39, her bandleader and fourth husband; on grounds of mental cruelty; after eight months of marriage; in Los Angeles.

Died. Richard McKenna, 51, novelist, a onetime Navy chief machinist's mate who proved that a good story tells itself, in 1963 won unanimous critical acclaim and a small fortune with his Sand Pebbles, a semi-autobiographical first novel of naval derring-do in the China of the 1920s that was printed in ten languages and snapped up by Hollywood for $200,000; of a heart attack; in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Died. Ralph Schneider, 55, co-founder and board chairman of Diners' Club Inc., a Manhattan lawyer who in 1950, with Credit Financier Frank Mc-Namara and Broadway Producer Alfred Bloomingdale, organized the eat-now-pay-later club that triggered the credit card boom, coining so much money (1,300,000 members at $10 annually; 7% of each tab from the restaurant), that Schneider was soon enjoying a $600,000 yearly income; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Jose Guizado, 65, President of Panama for 13 days in 1955, something of a record for brevity even in that part of the world, who moved up from Vice TJresiclent after the assassination of President Jose Antonio Remon, but shortly found himself in jail as the mastermind behind the plot, was sentenced to six years and eight months (so light because "this was his first crime"), of which he served two years before the government discovered that he was innocent after all; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach.

Died. Arthur Klein, 79, vaudeville booking agent who in 1909 saw Al Jolson perform in-a small Texas town with a group of blackface minstrels, within a year was booking him at $1,750 a week to wail M-a-m-m-m-m-y on the big-time Eastern circuit; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Dudley Figgis, 81, president (1943-49) and 'chairman (1948-51) of American Can Co., who went to work for American as an office boy at 16, as chief executive saw it become a giant in the field; after a long illness; in East Orange, N.J.

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