Married. Celeste Holm, 26, adaptable actress who played a home wrecker in The Women, an aging cipher in The Time of Your Life, a rather naughty girl in Oklahoma!; and A. Schuyler Dunning, 36, ex-A.A.F. captain; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Died. Marlin Hurt, 40, tall, dark & handsome radio actor whose falsetto portrayal of Beulah, the cackling, philosophizing Negro maid of Fibber McGee & Molly, was so convincing that it once drew a proposal of marriage; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. Dr. Alexander A. Alekhine, 53, world's chess champion (on & off) since 1927; of angina pectoris; in Estoril, Portugal. A former captain in the Czar's army, he once played 29 simultaneous games blindfolded, took time out for dinner, won them all.

Died. Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery, 53, wartime vice chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. He steered Henry Kaiser into shipbuilding, plumped loudly for a long-range program to make the U.S. a postwar maritime power.

Died. Clemens August Cardinal von Galen, 68, towering, recently elevated former bishop of Minister; in Frankfurt am Main. He was the second new cardinal to die within a fortnight (first: John Cardinal Glennon of St. Louis--TIME, March 18). His wartime sermons sometimes bluntly defied the Gestapo by spreading the suppressed news of drastic bomb damage, sometimes adroitly jabbed at Nazi ideology.

Died. Henrietta Richardson Robertson (pen name: Henry Handel Richardson), seventyish, Australian novelist (Ultima Thule) who lived in England but turned for subject matter to her native country; in Hastings, Sussex. A striver for Flaubertian impersonality, she achieved it so well that few readers guessed the author's sex.

Died. Prince Barbu Stirbey, 73, "the man behind the palace curtains," longtime intrigued (by Queen Marie) and intriguing (for her) undercover man of old-style Rumanian politics, negotiator of Rumania's surprise armistice in 1944; in Bucharest.

Died. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, 80, prototype of Kipling's cool, Latin-quoting Stalky, and last of the immortal trio* of Stalky & Co., in Torquay, Devonshire. As a full-grown soldier he was still the Kipling hero, in World War I bluffed the Turks out of the Baku oilfields with a handful of men.

* "McTurk" was George Charles Beresford (died 1938); "Beetle," Kipling himself (died 1936).

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