Married. Carol Elaine Channing, 35, raucous, outsized (5 ft. 9 in., 136 Ibs.) musicomedy zany whose who-me? expression and wild dancing wowed Broadway in 1949's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; and Charles Franklin Lowe, 38, Hollywood adman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Boulder City, Nev.
Died. Charles Jules Lowen Jr., 41, U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administrator, who fought since his appointment last December for an improved air-traffic control system, saw his arguments horribly strengthened when 128 persons died in the crash of two airliners over the Grand Canyon (TIME, July 9); of cancer, one day after the CAA announced a reorganization designed to speed establishment of a $246 million flight control network; in Denver.
Died. Anthony Harry (Tony) Leviero, 50, hard-plugging New York Times Washington correspondent (at the White House and Pentagon), who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Administration-leaked newsbeat on President Truman's 1950 Wake Island meeting with General MacArthur; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield, Mass.
Died. Dr. Otto Yulievich Schmidt, 64, tall, stoop-shouldered Russian explorer, who led the first expedition to sail the ice-clogged passage from Archangel to the Bering Strait in one season (1932); after long illness; in Moscow.
Died. Mario Ponzio, 71, cancer researcher and professor of radiology (since 1936) at the University of Turin, who underwent 19 operations to delay his inevitable death from radium burns suffered in his experiments, in 1955 was awarded Italy's highest honor, the Gold Medal for Valor; in Turin, Italy.
Died. Elsie Robinson, 73, gushy, widely read Hearstling whose syndicated column "Listen, World!" began twanging heartstrings in 1924, continued to resound after she was permanently bedridden following a 1940 accident; in San Francisco.
Died. Francis Anthony (Frank) Nixon, 77, father of Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, onetime telephone lineman, who settled in California, married Hannah Milhous (1908), became a successful storekeeper; of lung congestion, 13 days after the rupture of an abdominal artery suffered the day of his son's renomination; in Whittier, Calif.
Died. Rupert Hughes, 84, thickset, jowly Jack-of-all-literary-trades, who wrote some 50 books, including a candid, controversial biography, George Washington (three volumes, 1926, '27, '30) that "attacked the fables about him . . . cheap substitutes for great achievements," cranked out dozens of short stories, movie scripts, plays, musical compositions; in Los Angeles.