Friday, Dec. 30, 1966

Married. Beth Jenkins, 19, daughter of President Johnson's onetime White House Aide Walter W. Jenkins; and Peter Clayton Alandt, 21, a fellow student at Wayne State University; in a Roman Catholic ceremony attended by Lady Bird and including Luci as a bridesmaid; in Austin, Texas.

Married. Dina Merrill, 41, Social Registered sometime actress; and Cliff Robertson, 41, Hollywood leading man (PT 109), who has frequently appeared with Dina on TV, and will co-star with her in ABC's "The Trap of Solid Gold" on Jan. 4; both for the second time; at the home of the bride's mother, Post Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, in Washington, D.C.

Married. Art Carney, 48, Jackie Gleason's comical sidekick in television's long-run "Honeymooners," and co-star (with Walter Matthau) of last year's Broadway rib tickler The Odd Couple; and Barbara Isaac, 41, onetime TV production assistant; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Tara Browne, 21, heir to the Guinness brewery fortune and a pacemaker in London's "swinging" set as proprietor of a successful men's boutique selling mod Edwardian clothes; of injuries, when his Lotus Elan sports car hit a parked truck; in London.

Died. Carroll Gartin, 53, long-term Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, an influential moderate who could not shake a belief in segregation, nevertheless emerged as a champion of law and order when he rallied support among business and professional men against night-riding white terrorism during the long hot summer of 1964, was preparing to run for Governor next year; of a heart attack; in Laurel, Miss.

Died. Irita Van Doren, 75, longtime (1926-63) editor of Books, the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday review, and first wife of Author Carl Van Doren (The American Novel), whom she divorced in 1935, herself an influential lady of letters whose literary salon was graced by Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Andre Maurois and Carl Sandburg; of a stroke; in Manhattan.

Died. Leroy A. Van Bomel, 81, head of National Dairy Products Corp. for 16 years until his retirement in 1957, a descendant of Dutch settlers and dairymen, who started in the family trade as a Manhattan milkman, eventually became National Dairy president in 1941 and, by introducing modern technology to the barns and expanding into other food lines, in ten years doubled sales to $1 billion, thus making his company one of the nation's biggest food processors; of emphysema; in Manhattan.

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