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MARRIED. Zsa Zsa Gabor, over 60 (though she claims 54), gilded, Hungarian-born actress with less talent than she has wealthy former husbands; and Felipe de Alba, 52, Mexican lawyer who no longer uses his Spanish birthright title of Count of Pardela; she for the eighth time, he for the second; on a yacht off Puerto Vallarta...
DIED. Marcel Breuer, 79, Hungarian-born designer and architect whose sculptural use of steel and concrete helped shape the furniture and buildings of the 20th century; of heart disease; in New York City. Working with Walter Gropius at Germany's famous Bauhaus during the 1920s, Breuer was inspired by the curve of bicycle handles to design his celebrated tubular steel and leather Wassily chair (named for Painter Wassily Kandinsky, one of its first purchasers). After leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, he created the simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer...
DIED. George Katona, 79, Hungarian-born economist who, as director of the economic behavior program in the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, instituted the first large-scale studies of consumer attitudes and spending patterns; in West Berlin...
...Hungarian-born Zoltan Rendessy, whose Zoli agency is one of Ford's and Elite's strong cornpetitors, agrees that well-scrubbed class is at a premium. "Clean and healthy," he says. "I tell my girls to look antiseptic, clean, clean, clean...
DIED. Ladislas Farago, 74, Hungarian-born author of books on espionage and war (The Game of the Foxes, The Broken Seal) who claimed in 1972 that Hitler's ruthless deputy Martin Bormann was alive and posing as a businessman in Argentina; after a brief illness; in New York City...