Monday, Oct. 08, 1973

Married. Fou Ts'Ong, 39, concert pianist who in 1959 defected to the West from Communist China; and Hijong Hyun, 29, daughter of South Korea's Ambassador to Morocco; he for the second time (after an earlier marriage to Zamira Menuhin, daughter of Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin), she for the first; in London.

Separated. Joseph Alsop, 62, starchy, patrician, syndicated Washington columnist and brother of Newsweek's Stewart Alsop; and Susan Mary Alsop, 54; after twelve years of marriage, no children.

Died. Anna Magnani, 65, disheveled diva of Italian and American films; of cancer of the pancreas; in Rome. With her brooding, baggy eyes, Magnani emerged as one of Italy's best actresses after her 1945 role in Open City, a neo-realistic film of the Nazi occupation of Rome. Awarded an Oscar in 1956 for her portrayal of a truck driver's wife in The Rose Tattoo, her first Hollywood movie, the indomitable Magnani went on to star in The Fugitive Kind and The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Her well-publicized love life included a long affair with Director Roberto Rossellini, who was with her when she died.

Died. W.H. (for Wystan Hugh) Auden, 66, British-born Pulitzer prizewinning poet (see BOOKS).

Died. Pablo Neruda, 69, Nobel-prizewinning Chilean poet and former ambassador (see THE WORLD).

Died. Jules Podell, 74, former speakeasy operator who in 1940 opened the Copacabana, famed New York nightclub that became a showplace of flashy entertainment and a watering hole for celebrities; in Manhattan.

Died. Samuel Flagg Bemis, 81, longtime professor of diplomatic history at Yale (1935-60) who won two Pulitzer Prizes: in 1927 for Pinckney's Treaty, an outline of U.S. relations with Spain, and in 1950 for John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; in Bridgeport, Conn.

Died. A.S. (for Alexander Sutherland) Neill, 89, Scottish psychologist and founder of the controversial Summerhill School; in Suffolk, England. Neill's students, many of whom were Americans, wrote their own rules of conduct, attended classes and exams, studied and bathed at their own discretion. Though his critics were legion, Neill doggedly propagated his theories with wry good humor for a half-century in more than a score of books (Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, The Problem Parent).

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