Married. Princess Padmavati Raje, 19, daughter of western India's Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior; and Maharaja Kirit Bikram of Tripura, 23, powerless (since India's independence in 1947) chief of a small, warrior-caste state in northeast India; in a Bombay ceremony that was preceded by a two-mile-long procession of brass bands, clowns, torch bearers and lancemen, was attended by a brigade of India's richest princes, saw an exchange of gifts valued at some $1,000,000.
Married. Takako Suganomiya (meaning: noble, pure), Princess Suga, 21, jazz-loving daughter (youngest of five) of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Hisanaga Shimazu, 25, tall, thin, $50-a-month bank clerk; in a 20-minute Shinto ceremony in a Tokyo restaurant attended by Hirohito, Empress Nagako and Crown Prince Akihito, followed by a Western reception complete with cake and cutting.
Married. Sterling Hayden, 43, frog-voiced cinemadventurer (The Eternal Sea) and seafarer who, defying a court order, took his four children to Tahiti on his 98-ft. schooner (The Wanderer), got a suspended sentence on his return; and Catherine McConnell, 28, Manhattan socialite divorcée; he for the third time, she for the second; in Sausalito, Calif.
Died. Betty Hicks Lanza, 37, widow of Tenor Mario Lanza, who died of a heart attack at 38 last October; of unknown cause (autopsy pending); in Beverly Hills.
Died. Arnold M. Johnson, 53, Chicago-born tycoon who worked his way up from a $75-a-month broker's apprenticeship to the vice-presidency of Chicago's City National Bank & Trust Co., later (1954) bought (for $3,500,000) the Philadelphia Athletics and moved the team to Kansas City; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach.
Died. John Harlan Amen, 61, mild-mannered New York and U.S. attorney who used antitrust laws to fight rackets and won more than 250 convictions from 1928 to 1938, investigated corruption in Brooklyn and exposed scores of gangland-tied policemen, judges, lawyers, and three assistant district attorneys, also served as counsel during the Nuremberg trials, then was a Truman appointee to the Federal Loyalty Review Board; of a perforated ulcer; in Manhattan.
Died. Roy Chapman Andrews, 76, dashing explorer, naturalist, author (Meet Your Ancestors), who sailed the seven seas in search of whales, led a series of expeditions (from 1916 to 1932) into uncharted areas of Asia, came back from the Gobi Desert with 70 million-year-old dinosaur eggs and fossils from the world's biggest land mammal (the baluchitherium), became director of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif.
Died. Roy Knabenshue, 83, aviation pioneer, member of the famed "Early Birds" (among others: Orville Wright, Igor Sikorsky, Glenn Martin), first to fly (in 1904) a motor-controlled airship in the U.S.; in Los Angeles.
Died. Jean Puy, 84, French painter who, with Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Braque, launched the style of vivid colors and simplified shapes, created such a scandal at the famed 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition that they were dubbed Les Fauves (the wild beasts); in Roanne, France.