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Milestones, Oct. 31, 1960

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Married. Imogene Fernandez y Coca, forty-fiveish. elf-eyed TV, stage and nightclub comedienne; and Actor King Donovan, 41; after a summer stock stage-marriage tour in The Fourposter; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Bridget Hayward, 21. one of three children born to Theatrical Producer Leland Hayward and the late Actress Margaret Sullavan, who died after an overdose of sleeping pills last January; apparently of an overdose of barbiturates; in her Manhattan apartment. Miss Sullavan, whose own death was first labeled suicide, then called accidental, once said: “I don’t think it’s important that I work. I’d rather be with my children, though I’ve never been a palsy-walsy mother.”

Died. Junius Spencer Morgan, 68, banker, philanthropist and expert yachtsman in the tradition of his father, J. P. Morgan, and grandfather, J. Pierpont Morgan; after an emergency operation for an intestinal hemorrhage; in an Ontario hospital after a hunting trip. Pipe-smoking and softspoken, he never made big headlines like J. Pierpont or J. P. II, and once gratefully accepted a 1¢ refund on his federal income tax.

Died. John Angel, 78, noted church sculptor of statuary in Manhattan’s Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the huge bronze doors of Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and a marble Last Supper in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty Presbyterian Church; of congestive heart failure; in his rural Sandy Hook, Conn. home. A spry, chain-smoking Episcopalian, Angel munched on gingerbread cookies as he fashioned his models in clay, contentedly resigned himself to the traditional anonymity of his art, thought modern art “merely a passing phase.”

Died. Maud (“Great-Granny”) Falkner (her spelling), 88, late-in-life painter, and mother of Novelists William (The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary) and John (Men Working, Chooky) Faulkner (their spelling); of a stroke; in her home at Oxford, Miss. Maud Falkner began her painting in a WPA art class in 1941, produced some 600 oils, most of them copies of old masters but also many Negro portraits and rural landscapes.

Death Revealed. Ida Rubinstein, 75, once-famed ballet dancer; on Sept. 20, of a heart attack; in Vence on the French Riviera. Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), she started scantily in a quickly banned version of Salome, rapidly went on to score in a variety of roles that highlighted her somnolent beauty and miming talents, rather than dancing skill, led her own companies in performing works commissioned from Ravel (Boléro), Debussy Stravinsky. She died in seclusion in the hillside village that had been her home for two decades.

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