Milestones, Jan. 17, 1977

Married. Lowell Thomas, 84, peripatetic broadcaster; and Marianna Munn, 49, a former charity executive; both for the second time; on Maui Island, Hawaii. Thomas, whose first wife died in 1975, ended his 46 years of regular radio reports last spring.

Died. Erroll Garner, 53, jazz pianist and composer (Misty); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Garner taught himself to play the piano when he was a child, but he never learned to read or write music. The musicians' union in his native Pittsburgh refused him membership in the 1940s because of this illiteracy, so Garner journeyed to New York City's famed...

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