Married. Steve Allen, 32, owl-eyed TV funnyman (What's My Line?, Steve Allen Show); and Jayne Meadows, 31, red-haired TV paneleer (I've Got a Secret); both for the second time; in Waterford, Conn.
Died. James Charles Jacob ("Sarge") Bagby Sr., 64, onetime (1912-23) major-league pitcher, winner of 31 games for the world-champion Cleveland Indians of 1920; following a stroke; in Marietta, Ga.
Died. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, 68, whose appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark (1933-36) made her America's first woman diplomat; of a coronary thrombosis; in Copenhagen. Daughter of three-time Democratic Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, at one time she taught public speaking, lectured on the Chautauqua circuit, served in the House of Representatives (1929-33), found greatest happiness as Minister to Denmark but had to resign in 1936 when she married Borge Rohde, a captain in the King's palace guards.
Died. The Rev. Stewart P. MacLennan, 69, longtime (1921-40) pastor of Hollywood's huge (membership: 6,400) First Presbyterian Church; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Dr. MacLennan hit the headlines briefly in 1948 when he was formally rebuked by the Los Angeles Presbytery for performing the marriage ceremony for thrice-divorced Lana Turner and thrice-divorced Bob Topping, said in his own defense that he was impressed by Lana's "sincerity and depth of feeling."
Died. Dr. Katharine Blunt, 78, longtime (1929-43, 1945-46) president of Connecticut College; in New London, Conn.
Died. William MacLeod Raine, 83, since Zane Grey's death in 1939 the undisputed No. 1 writer of westerns (TIME, July 19); of a heart ailment; in Denver. London-born Fictioneer Raine moved to Arkansas when he was ten, turned out 80 unpretentious novels (19 million copies sold in 12 languages) chronicling the exploits of unpretentious cowboys in the old West he so well remembered.
Died. John Duncan Spaeth, 85, president emeritus of the University of Kansas City, longtime (1905-36) firecracker of Princeton's English department, which he joined as one of Woodrow Wilson's original "preceptor guys": after long illness; in Wayne, Pa.
Died. Joseph E. Ransdell, 95, oldest ex-member of the U.S. Senate (TIME, May 31), Democratic Congressman (1899-1913) and Senator from Louisiana (1913-1931) until Huey Long decided in 1930 that he would rather serve the nation from Washington than from Baton Rouge; after long illness; in Lake Providence, La.