Milestones, may 2, 1955

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Married. King Hussein of Jordan, 19; and Sherifa Dina Abdul Hamid el-Aoun, 26, lecturer in English literature at Cairo University and a distant cousin of Hussein; both for the first time in Amman, Jordan.

Married. Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hobo clown of the Ringling Brothers circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth) and Elveria Gebhardt, 22, circus acrobat; he for the third time, she for the first; in Edgewater, N.J.

Died. Henry Busse, 61, German-born pioneer "sweet" jazz trumpeter, orchestra leader and composer (Wang Wang Blues'); of a heart attack; in Memphis.

Died. Harry Woodburn Chase, 72, onetime president of the Universities of North Carolina (1919-30) and Illinois (1930-33) and chancellor of New York University (1933-51); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Sarasota, Fla. Tall, genial Harry Chase started his academic career as a professor of psychology at North Carolina, moved into his first college presidency at 36. A first-rate administrator, he guided N.Y.U. through its period of greatest expansion, when enrollments jumped from 30,000 to 60,000, and the $32 million N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center and the $3,000,000 Law Center got under way.

Died. Dr. Albert Einstein, 76, the great mathematician and physicist; of a ruptured aorta; in Princeton, N.J. (see SCIENCE).

Died. Colonel Jim Corbett, 80, big-game hunter and tracker, author of best-selling books on his jungle campaigns against the big cats of India (Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been connected with India for 200 years, Jim Corbett grew up in the tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track man-eaters, made his most famous kill when he got the Champawat tiger, which had eaten 436 people. He repeatedly voiced his admiration for the cats he hunted, killed them reluctantly and pressed for a stricter Indian game code to head off their extinction.

Died. F. (for Francis) Scott McBride, 82, a leader of the Anti-Saloon League of America for 44 years; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A Presbyterian minister, McBride became a professional temperance crusader in 1911. He lamented in 1934 that the end of prohibition was resulting in "riots and bloodshed." In 1935 he proclaimed that "repeal has failed" and predicted national prohibition would be back by 1945.