Divorced. By Phyllis Diller, 48, raucous-toned nightclub comedienne; Sherwood Diller, 52, her manager and longtime butt of onstage gibes; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, five children; in St. Louis.
Died. Wendell Johnson, 59, longtime (since 1931) University of Iowa speech pathologist, himself a onetime tongue-tied stutterer, who could barely get his name out when he registered at Iowa's pioneer speech clinic in 1926, conquered his defect and went on to write a famed series of studies indicating that children stammer most often because of "conscientious but misunderstanding listeners, usually mothers," trying overly hard to cure what are only...
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