Married. Tom Mercer Girdler, 65, chairman of Republic Steel Corp., Consolidated and Vultee Aircraft Inc.; and Helen Brennan, 36, his ex-secretary; he for the fourth time, she for the first; five days after his third wife divorced him; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Army Glider Pilot Jackie Coogan, 28; by Flower Parry Coogan, 20, his second wife (first was Betty Grable); after 16 months; in Los Angeles.

Died. Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 46, French journalist, lecturer, interpreter of current history (The Making of Tomorrow); after a long illness; in Manhattan. He was one of the most influential of De Gaulle's champions in the U.S., where he had lived since 1932. He was educated in Paris and in England, came to the U.S. to cover the New Deal for the Revue de Paris, worked as correspondent for Paris-Soir, Paris-Midi, L'Europe Nouvelle and Havas News Agency before the fall of France.

Died. Orland S. ("Spike") Loomis, 49, Wisconsin's Governor-elect; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. A Progressive, he won a surprise victory last month over Republican Gov. Julius P. ("The Just") Heil.

Died. Major Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 59, big-game-hunting sportsman whose trial for murder was a Maughamesque midsummer sensation of Kenya Colony in 1941; of undetermined causes; in Liverpool. He was acquitted in the fatal shooting of his handsome friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Enroll, with whom Sir Henry's 29-year-old bride had fallen in love.

Died. Amos Rusie, 71, sensational "fastball" pitching star of the '90s; in Seattle. His fans claimed he merely went through the motions of pitching sometimes, and nobody but the catcher was the wiser. Pitching for the New York Giants, he struck out 345 batters in 1890, when the foul-strike rule had not yet been made; but he handed out 276 bases on balls the same season. In his first four years with the Giants he pitched 224 games, won 132 of them, moved the team from last to second place in the National League. He ruined his arm with a snap throw in 1897, quit ball playing three years later.

Died. Martin Van Buren, 86, last surviving grandson of the eighth President; in a hotel lobby in Manhattan. He never married, never worked for a living, lived a solitary life, once remarked that his only tangible possessions were three suitcases full of clothing--one in England, one in Bar Harbor, one in Manhattan's dowager-like Murray Hill Hotel.

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