Married. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, one time Wimbledon tennis champion, ex-Davis Cup star; and Anne Winter Kiess Rodenberg, 25, ash-blond socialite, daughter of the late, longtime U.S. Representative Edgar Kiess from Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Manhattan, two weeks after his divorce from Edith Betts Wood (TIME, April 2).

Married. Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, 47, handsome Hollywood gynecologist whose 1935 divorce from Cinemactress Mary Astor heralded the famed courtroom squabble over custody of their child (for three weeks U.S. tabloids went tantivy after her two-volume diary, rich in purple patches); and Virginia Bancroft Mitchell, 25; both for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Killed in Action. Lieut. Alfred C. Blozis, 26, big (6 ft. 6 in., 250 lb.), towheaded champ shot-putter (his stillstand ing indoor record: 56 ft. 4 1/2 in. in 1941), ex-pro football star (New York Giants); by German machine-gun fire when he waded through hip-deep snow to look for a missing comrade; in France's Vosges Mountains.

Died. Gloria Dickson, 27, blond cinemactress who made one long leap from the 1937 Federal Theater Project to Hollywood stardom (They Won't Forget}, then never quite fulfilled the critics' bright hopes; of suffocation when her home was gutted by fire; in Hollywood.

Died. Justinian Cardinal Seredi, 60, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, Archbishop of Esztergom, who was carried off as a hostage by the Nazis just before the Soviet armies took Budapest; of a heart attack ("where and under what conditions ... it is not yet precisely known," said a Vatican German-language broadcast). As early as 1934 he said, "It is not possible for a Catholic priest to approve Nazi principles, and I decidedly prohibit . . . even a benevolent attitude of any of my priests toward it."

Died. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 63, 31st President of the United States, in the third month of his fourth term; of a cerebral hemorrhage; at Warm Springs, Ga. (see U.S. AT WAR).

Died. Sir Walter Gilbey, 85, rollicking British distiller and amateur horseman, famed for his loud check suits, curly-brimmed hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette.

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