Divorced. Harry James, 54, ace trumpeter and bandleader in the '40s and early '50s, who still blows a hot horn on the Las Vegas nightclub scene; by Joan Boyd James, 30, former Vegas showgirl; on grounds of incompatibility; after two years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas.
Died. Charles A. Wellman, 54, president of the $1 billion LFC Financial Corp., and one of the country's foremost doctors of ailing companies; in Los Angeles. When Wellman took over from Bart Lytton in 1968, the huge ($685 million assets) but debt-ridden Lytton Financial Corp. was on the verge of bankruptcy. The new president...
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