Monday, May. 04, 1981
MARRIED. Valerie Bertinelli, 20, who plays the younger teen-age daughter on TV's One Day at a Time; and Eddie Van Halen, 23, rock guitarist and co-founder of the group Van Halen; both for the first time, in Los Angeles.
DIED. Edward (Eddie) Sauter, 66, trumpet-playing jazz composer and arranger who during the 1930s and 1940s contributed deft, harmonically venturesome scores to many top swing bands, notably that of Benny Goodman (Clarinet a la King, Benny Rides Again), then teamed up with fellow Arranger Bill Finegan during the 1950s to form the innovative Sauter-Finegan orchestra, which used unusually diverse instrumentation to recast such tunes as Moonlight on the Ganges, April in Paris and The Doodletown Fifers; of a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y.
DIED. Derek Ernest Denny-Brown, 79, New Zealand-born neurologist, who as a professor at Harvard and chief neurologist at Boston City Hospital made pioneering contributions to research on the human nervous system, including the first description of degenerative changes in nerves that result in cases of widespread cancer, and the theory that an insufficient supply of blood to the brain can lead to strokes; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass.
DIED. Reuben Maury, 81, soft-spoken lawyer-turned-journalist who wrote hard-hitting, influential editorials for the New York Daily News from 1926 to 1972, lecturing readers on the dangers of Communism and bad grammar, lampooning public figures and once describing U.N. headquarters as "a glass cigar box jam-packed with pompous do-gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page of liberal Collier's magazine. "An editorial writer," he explained, "is like a lawyer or a public relations man: his job is to make the best possible case for his client."
DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei.
DIED. Carl Ell, 93, former professor and dean of engineering, who served as president of Boston's Northeastern University from 1940 to 1959, expanding the school's engineering, liberal arts and education departments and guiding its growth from an enrollment of several hundred into one of the nation's largest private universities; in Newton, Mass.
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