Born. To Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Harry Hines Woodring: a son, Marcus Coolidge, named for his maternal grandfather, the junior Senator from Massachusetts; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Susan Sheppard, 19, daughter of Texas Senator Morris Sheppard; and Cornelius McGillicuddy Jr., 21, son of Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics; in Washington.

Married. Mrs. Ruth Owen Meeker, 28, daughter of Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen; and Robert Lehman, banker, cousin of Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Laura La Plante, cinemactress; and Irving Asher, director of the Warner Bros. London studio; in Paris. A witness: onetime Mayor of New York James John ("Jimmy") Walker.

Died. Robert Remen Arnold, 36, State Capitol reporter for the Albany Evening News; from a fractured skull caused by falling from a second-story window at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), where he was attending his 18th class reunion.

Died. Thorne Smith, 42, humorist; of heart disease; in Sarasota, Fla. His fantastic novels embroidered such subjects as the coming to life of statues of mythological persons (The Night Life of the Gods), the adventures of bibulous ghosts (Topper Takes a Trip), the predicaments of a man and wife whose bodies were magically exchanged (Turnabout).

Died. Edward J. ("Ed") Thorp, 48, famed football and basketball authority, referee last season of the Columbia-Stanford, Yale-Harvard and Pennsylvania-Cornell football games; of cerebral hemorrhage following apoplexy; in Port Chester, N. Y.

Died. Mrs. Emma Littlefield Moore, 53, retired actress, wife of Actor Victor Moore who played "Vice President Throttlebottom" in Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake; of pneumonia; in Farmingdale, L. I.

Died. Charles Spalding Thomas, 84, silver money advocate, onetime (1899-1901) Governor of Colorado, onetime (1913-21) U. S. Senator; after a six-month illness; in Denver. Strongly individualistic, he opposed closed shops, payment of the Soldiers' Bonus, fought hard for the 16-to-1 silver-gold ratio. Last year he announced he was hoarding $120 in gold, tried unsuccessfully to be brought to trial.

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