Married. Giulietta Simionato, 55, Italian mezzo-soprano, who this week ends her 30-year career in European and U.S. opera with a farewell performance of La Clemenza di Tito at La Piccola Scala; and Cesare Frugoni, 84, retired Rome physician; both for the second time; in Rome.

Died. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 56, India's top nuclear physicist, a Nehru protege who, after taking over the Indian Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, built with U.S. and other foreign help a capability that by now has put the country within 18 months of having a Bomb (which it says it doesn't want); in the crash of an Air-India 707 jetliner on Mont Blanc, killing all 117 aboard.

Died. Michael Joseph Quill, 60, the Irishman who laid his shillelagh across New York City's transit system last month; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan (see THE NATION).

Died. Henri Soule, 62, peerless New York restaurateur; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING).

Died. Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones, 66, Tony's father, a wealthy, thrice-married, retired Welsh barrister, who proudly pronounced his commoner son's wedding to Princess Margaret "the most democratic moment I have ever seen"; of cancer; in Caernarvonshire, Wales.

Died. Stanton Chapman Crawford, 68, acting chancellor since June of the University of Pittsburgh, longtime dean of the faculty, who earned good marks for bringing in $5,000,000 in emergency state aid to ease the school's $27 million deficit, but hardly had time to tackle basic problems of high costs and declining income from gifts; of a heart attack after leaving a fund-raising dinner; in Pittsburgh.

Died. John Bradshaw Crandell, 69, cover-girl artist and glamour arbiter of the 1930's and '40s, a onetime Manhattan commercial artist who decided to concentrate on the more interesting aspects of the business, painting pictures of stylish, pink-cheeked "all-American girls who have plenty of sex appeal, but don't show it," which quickly became favorite covers for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Madison, Conn.

Died. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 72, younger of World War I's draft-dodging brothers; of pneumonia; in Richmond, Va. The playboy sons of a wealthy German-American brewer in Philadelphia, Grover and his brother Erwin skipped town to avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled to Germany, where he stayed until 1939, when he finally returned to serve his prison term.

Died. Berton Braley, 83, self-styled Manhattan "versifier" who unabashedly wrote for loot, not laurels, over the years turned out something like 11,000 items, ranging from light verse for magazines to Burma-Shave jingles, and once (1913) even covered the World Series in verse for United Press; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Braley insisted that he worked over the lowliest limerick "as though I were trying to write an epic," and, indeed, some were epics of their kind:

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