Milestones, Feb. 2, 1976

Married. Joseph Papp, 54, theatrical impresario and producer of Hair, That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing and A Chorus Line; and Gail Merrifield, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Actor-Assassin John Wilkes Booth and director of play development at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan.

Died. Sir Alexander Haddow, 69, trail-blazing cancer expert who directed London's famed Chester Beatty Research Institute, Royal Cancer Hospital from 1946 to 1969; in Amersham, England. Starting at the institute in 1936, Haddow joined a research team that pointed to the value of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer....

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