Married. Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 33, lately labeled "Madame Cheesecake" (TIME, May 15); and Army Air Forces Captain Oliver Burgess Meredith, 36. homely peacetime sprite of stage and cinema; each for the third time; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Marriage Revealed. Ann Corio, 27, onetime ecdysiast No. 1 of burlesque; and Vaudevillian Robert Williams, 32; both for the second time; last month; in Mexico.

Died. Valsa Anna Matthai, 21, daughter of Bombay Industrialist John Matthai, Columbia University student whose disappearance two months ago was an unsolved mystery (TIME, April 24); by drowning; in the Hudson River. It was believed that she would be found in the river, that a thunderstorm might bring her to the surface; last week, three days after a thunderstorm, her unmarked body was found floating near Yonkers.

Died. Captain Levi Plesner, 50, legendary Pacific skipper, onetime King of Huaheine; at sea. On a trip to the South Pacific in 1912, he visited the Society Island of Huaheine, wooed & won Queen Pupuri Vahine Veatua, ruled two years as King Terii. When his Queen died, he said: "Something within me died, too. I took off my crown, put on my sailor's cap and sailed away from Huaheine."

Died. Eugene Chen, 65, Chinese politico, longtime antagonist of Chiang Kaishek; of a heart ailment; in Shanghai. Born of Chinese parents in British Trinidad, Chen first visited China in 1912, later edited the English-language Peiping Gazette, served as legal adviser to the late great Sun Yatsen, became the No. 1 Chinese propagandist under the tutelage of Soviet Russia's master propagandist, Michael Borodin. In 1927 the Generalissimo branded Chen a Communist and a foreigner, forced him from the post of Foreign Minister for the Russian-dominated Hankow Government. Four years later, Chen made a comeback, was named Foreign Minister of the National Government after Chiang resigned as President. Chen lost the last battle in 1934 when he formed a revolutionary army which was routed by Chiang's regulars.

Died. Jacobus Jonker, 72, finder of the world's fourth largest diamond; in Transvaal, South Africa. After 18 years of small diggings in South African gravel, in 1934 South African Prospector Jonker dug up a flawless, blue-white, 726-carat diamond, the Jonker.* He sold it for a reported $312,000 and retired to a farm. The diamond was resold for $730,000.

*The three bigger finds: Cullinan (3,025 3/4 k.), Excelsior (969 1/2 k.), Great Mogul (787 k.).

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.