Divorced. By Cinemactress Betty (The Greatest Show on Earth) Hutton, 30: Camera Manufacturer Ted Briskin, 33, on charges of mental cruelty (i.e., Briskin made her "very, very nervous"); after six years of marriage, two daughters; in Los Angeles.
Died. Shri Hanwant Singh ("Funny Face") Bahadur, 28, Maharaja of Jodhpur, amateur magician, who was trying to perform a difficult political trick: persuading Indian voters to honor his past princely glory by electing him an independent member of both the national Parliament and his own Rajasthan state assembly (TIME, Jan. 14); in the crash of his private plane in the midst of his campaign; in Jawai Bund, Rajasthan.
Died. Major General Robert H. Soule, 51, former 3rd Infantry Division commander in Korea, who won a Distinguished Service Cross for his iron-nerved handling of the X Corps' epic "advance in another direction" in December, 1950, from the Changjin Reservoir to the Hungnam beachhead; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C.
Died. Kharloin Choibalsan, 56, Premier Marshal of the (Outer) Mongolian People's Republic, one of the Kremlin's hardiest puppets; of what Moscow insisted were "natural causes" (cancer of the kidney); in the Kremlin, Moscow.
Died. Robert Porter Patterson, 60, World War I hero, lawyer, jurist, onetime (1945-47) U.S. Secretary of War; in a plane crash at Elizabeth, N.J. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Veteran Comedienne Polly (Pauline Theresa) Moran, 66, who starred in early Mack Sennett two-reelers, hit her peak as Marie Dressler's sparring partner in such early-talkie slapstick wrangles as Prosperity, Caught Short; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood.
Died. Orator Francis Woodward, 67, multimillionaire Jell-O heir whose domestic troubles and "romantic interlude" with a nurse put him on the check-signing end of two thumping divorce settlements ($1,000,000 to his first wife in 1929, $42,000 a year to his second in 1941); by suicide in a plunge from his $1,340-a-month hotel suite; in Rochester, N.Y.
Died. Sveinn Björnsson, 70, Iceland's president (twice reelected) since its Parliament broke its last bond with Nazi-dominated Denmark in 1944 and proclaimed the island an independent republic ; of a heart ailment; in Reykjavik.
Died. Owen McMahon Johnson, 73, Yale-educated novelist (class of '01) who spoofed his Alma Mater's social system with 1911's bestselling Stover at Yale; after long illness; in Vineyard Haven, Mass.