Married. Taylor Caldwell, 71, best-selling novelist (This Side of Innocence, Great Lion of God); and William Everett Stancell, 72, retired real estate developer; she for the third time, he for the eighth; in Eggertsville, N.Y.

Died. Gene Farmer, 52, a senior editor of LIFE who went from the Ozark hills into the presence of prime ministers; of a heart attack; in Lexington. Mass. After earning a journalism degree at Northwestern University, Farmer joined the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette, where he soon became city editor. During his 27 years with LIFE, he moved through a succession of key assignments including sports editor, London bureau chief and foreign news editor. He was active in recent years in editing and condensing major works for publication in LIFE. Among them: Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, and Khrushchev Remembers. He also expanded LIFE'S account of the Apollo 11 mission into a book, First on the Moon.

Died. John Stack, 65, aerodynamics engineer who played a central role in developing the first U.S. supersonic plane, and later was responsible for breakthroughs that led to the controversial F-111 swing-wing jet; of injuries suffered in a fall from a horse; in Yorktown, Va.

Died. Howard D. Johnson, 75, founder of the roadside restaurant and motel chain that bears his name; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dissatisfied as the proprietor of a drugstore and newsstand during the '20s, Johnson went looking for a product "I could call by my own name." He settled first on ice cream, opened a beachside stand, then in 1929 launched his first restaurant in Quincy, Mass. He then combined the Howard Johnson name and know-how with money from other small entrepreneurs by franchising the familiar orange, blue and white highway rest stops across the country. They now number 875 restaurants and 470 motor lodges, valued at some $300 million. -

Died. S. (for Stephen) Howard Young, 94, one of the world's wealthiest art dealers; in Manhattan. Born in Belle Center, Ohio, Young began selling prints throughout the Midwest while still a teen-ager and in three years accumulated $400,000. Wiped out by the panic of 1896, he started again by commissioning portraits of recently deceased rich people, then selling the paintings to the bereaved families. Later he began collecting paintings for wealthy clients, and finally established a hugely successful gallery in New York. His greatest coup was the discovery at an auction of the lost El Greco, Christ Healing the Blind.

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