Friday, May. 27, 1966

Married. Christina Crawford, 26, sometime actress and the eldest of four adopted children raised by Joan Crawford; and Harvey Medlinsky, 35, Broadway stage manager; in Manhattan.

Married. Melina Mercouri, 40, who makes a virtue out of vice (Never on Sunday, Topkapi); and Director Jules Dassin, 54, her constant companion for ten years; both for the second time; in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Died. Randy Turpin, 37, prizefighter son of a white Englishwoman and a British Guianan merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later in a rematch, after which Turpin wound up wrestling for $30 a night; by his own hand (pistol); in Leamington Spa, England.

Died. Kamel Mrowa, 54, U.S. missionary-educated Lebanese publisher whose daily Al-Hayat (circ. 22,000) ranks as the leading voice of responsible Arab nationalism, scorning Nasser's adventurous leftist socialism; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a pro-Nasser bank messenger; in Beirut.

Died. Kathryn Forbes, 57, author of the 1943 bestseller Mama's Bank Account, a warm reminiscence of Norwegian-American family life that turned out to be a motherly rival to Life with Father, as a 714-performance hit play, I Remember Mama, a popular movie, and a television series for seven seasons; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in San Francisco.

Died. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 64, younger daughter of Britain's World War I Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, who inherited his passionate attachment to the underdog, serving in Parliament for 31 years, first as a reform-minded Liberal M.P. from North Wales, then in 1955 bolting her father's party, which she felt was too right-wing, to become a Labor M.P.; of cancer; in Criccieth, Wales.

Died. Paul Derval, 85, director of the Folies-Bergere for 47 years, whose Paris pleasure dome introduced to the world such stars as Maurice Chevalier and Fernandel, but was most famed for tableaux of statuesque girls in scanty costumes pasteurized enough for the tourist family trade without losing all the spice of Gallic life; of a pulmonary edema; in Paris.

Died. Theodore Francis Green, 98, former U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, and the oldest man ever to serve in Congress; of heart disease; in Providence (see THE NATION).

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