Married. Orson Welles, 28, showman; and Rita Hayworth, 24, cinemalulu; each for the second time; three months after Rita announced that she would marry Coast Guardsman Victor Mature after the war; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sleight-of-handed Welles, who at the ceremony could not get the ring out of its box, had featured his bride in his Hollywood magic show (TIME, Aug. 16). Said Mature: "Apparently the way to a girl's heart is to saw her in half."

Died. Richard Chichester du Pont, 32, gliding champion of the '30s, special assistant on gliders to the Chief of the U.S. Air Forces; in a glider crash; near March Field, Calif. Son of A. Felix du Pont of the Delaware chemicals clan, he set several soaring records between 1933 and '39, was National Soaring champion for three years.

Died. Frank Crumit, 53, Julia Sanderson's genial, longtime stage and radio teammate; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A banker's son, Crumit tried vaudeville while waiting to land an engineering job. He became Miss Sanderson's leading man in 1922, married her in 1927. Singing, ukulele-playing Crumit wrote more than 25 songs, sold more than 4,000,000 recordings.

Died. Dr. Frederick Paul Keppel, 68, from 1923 to 1941 president of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation, onetime Dean of Columbia College (1910-18); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As the amiable, skeptical disburser of the income from Andrew Carnegie's steel-extracted $135,000,000, Keppel acted in the pedant-peppering spirit which prompted his 1938 blast at the "mysteries . . . rites . . . ceremonials. . . of the Ph.D. degree."

Died. Dr. Charles McLean Andrews, 80, pre-eminent historian of the American Colonies; Yale professor emeritus; in New Haven. Gifted equally in research, writing and inspiration to younger historians, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson in 1925 as president of the American Historical Society (the late great Henry Adams' onetime post), retired in 1931 from his professorship, in 1933 from his 21-year editorship of Yale's Historical Publications. He won 1935's Pulitzer Prize for the first of his four crowning volumes: The Colonial Period of American History.

Died. Reginald McKenna, 80, onetime Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, since 1919 chairman of London's Midland (largest) Bank; in London.' As First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11) he battled for British naval expansion against President of the Board of Trade Winston Churchill--who succeeded him in the naval post in time for World War I.

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