Monday, Jan. 25, 1982

MARRIED. Andre Previn, 52, composer and music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony; and British Glass Engraver Heather Hales, 33; he for the fourth time (Actress Mia Farrow was his third wife), she for the second; in Pittsburgh.

DIVORCED. Christiaan Barnard, 59, South African surgeon who performed the world's first successful human heart transplant; and Barbara Barnard, 31, boutique owner and daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist; after twelve years of marriage, two sons; in Cape Town. She received custody of the children.

DIED. Paul Lynde, 55, comedian best known as a wisecracking panelist on NBC's The Hollywood Squares; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lynde's cheerfully prissy manner and arch responses to game-show questions won him five Emmy nominations and a wide daytime following. As an actor, he played a befuddled fussbudget who delivered witticisms in the face of disaster in the stage and film versions of Bye, Bye Birdie and more than a dozen hapless Hollywood comedies.

DIED. John Jarman, 66, former Oklahoma Congressman who switched to the Republican Party in 1975 after Democratic reformers weakened the seniority system; of skin cancer; in Oklahoma City.

DIED. Walter ("Red") Smith, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist whose wry wit and pursuit of what he called "the pure crystal stream of the declarative sentence" made him the most influential and admired sportswriter of our time; in Stamford, Conn. Smith, in the great line of such sportswriter-debunkers as Ring Lardner, Westbrook Pegler and Damon Runyon, kept his subjects at arm's length. "These are still games little boys play," he said. "The future of civilization is not at stake." He gave a strong hint of what was to become his skewed, lifelong approach to a story on his first sports assignment in 1928: covering a night football practice, he wrote the piece from the viewpoint of a glowworm depressed by the awesome competition of the field lights. Smith was exceptionally prolific, turning out five columns a week for 21 years at the New York Herald Tribune, and four a week for ten years at the New York Times. He lavished most of his attention on his favorite sports--baseball, boxing, horseracing and football--but he also was a keen lover of the outdoors and wrote with affection about fishing. "He might have been a great athlete," Smith once wrote of himself, "except that he is small, puny, slow, inept, uncoordinated, myopic and yellow."

DIED. Sigurd Olson, 82, who led a 60-year fight to protect the wilderness along the U.S.-Canadian border; of a heart attack, after snowshoeing; in Ely, Minn. Among his books are The Singing Wilderness and Runes of the North.

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