Married. Walter Sherman Gifford, 59, high-domed, precise president of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., father of two Navy sons (the elder lost in the South Pacific last July); and Augustine ("Tine") Lloyd Perry, 50, mother of four sons in the armed services; both for the second time; in Pompano, Fla.

Married. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, 64, a widower since 1939, aloof, dictatorial publisher of Chicago's blatant Tribune; and Maryland Mathison Hooper, 47, sprightly, modish society matron, ex-Baltimore belle, longtime intimate of the Colonel and his late wife, recently divorced from Chicago Fuel Dealer Henry Hooper; both for the second time; in Chicago.

Died. Major Francis Yeats-Brown, 58, handsome professional soldier-author (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Lancer at Large), distinguished poloist and pigsticker (hunter of wild boars), practitioner of Yoga; in London.

Died. Harry Langdon, 60, wide-eyed, comic deadpantomimer of Hollywood's silent-film days (The Strong Man, Long Pants, etc.); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Out of a long apprenticeship in carnivals, circuses, tent shows, vaudeville, Langdon evolved his helpless, forlorn, little-man-against-the-world comic style, which was once worth $7,500 a week, later sank to "$22 a week--some weeks."

Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days.

Died. George Higgins Moses, 75, caustic, critical Republican Senator (1918 to 1933) from New Hampshire; of coronary thrombosis; in Concord, N.H. A Greek and Latin scholar, thin-lipped, Maine-born Senator Moses specialized in the crushing word. Sample phrases: "sons of the wild jackass" (insurgent Western Senators); "four more years of diminuendo" (on the re-election of Calvin Coolidge). Buried by the 1932 Democratic landslide, he remained thereafter, in his own phrase, "only a nuisance value to the Republican Party."

Died. Wassily Kandinsky, 78, mild, Russian-born pioneer of abstract painting, longtime teacher at the famed German Bauhaus school; of edema of the lung; in Paris. Once a Moscow economist and lawyer, Painter Kandinsky experimented with colorful, carefully composed abstract pictures, believed that "even a poodle dog might learn how to draw."

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