Married. Pamela Wavell, oldest of the three daughters of General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell; and Lieut. Francis Humphrys, son of Lieut. Colonel Sir Francis Humphrys, onetime British Ambassador to Iraq; in Cairo.

Divorced. Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), 40; by Carol Henning Steinbeck, 38; after an eleven-month separation; in Salinas, Calif. She won a settlement of $220,000 and the Steinbeck home at Pacific Grove, Calif.

Died. Rachel Lyman Field, 47, best-selling novelist (All This, and Heaven Too); of pneumonia after an operation; in Los Angeles. She had written professionally for 14 years before her sensational success in 1938 with All This.

Died. Jesse Frederick Essary, 60, dean of Washington news correspondents; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington. He was chief of the Baltimore Sun's Washington Bureau for 30 years.

Died. David Bibb Graves, 68, twice Governor of Alabama (1927-31; 1935-39); of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. He was the only Alabama Governor ever to serve two full terms, was preparing, when he died, to campaign for a third. He was nicknamed "the Klan Governor" when he first took office, later dropped his Ku Klux membership. When ex-Klansman Senator Hugo Black went to the Supreme Court bench in 1937, Graves appointed his wife to fill the vacancy.

Died. Sir William Henry Bragg, 79, famed British physicist; in London. With Son William Lawrence Bragg he developed the X-ray spectrometer, which revealed the interior architecture of crystals. For this work father & son shared the 1915 Nobel Prize. A famed, sound popularizer of science, Sir William once flatly told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that man has a soul, declared : "Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together."

Died. Robert Bosch, 80, bald, bearded German magneto king; in Stuttgart. A farmer's son, he developed a small electrical business in a backyard shop in Stuttgart into a $1,000,000 industry, based chiefly on the world-famed Bosch high-tension magneto, the Bosch auto horn, the Bosch lamp.

Died. James Buchanan Elmore, 85, "The Bard of Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook."

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