Married. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner Jr., 31, Hollywood writer (Woman of the Year), son of the late great humorist; and Radio Actress Frances Chaney Lardner, 27, widow of Ring's brother David, war correspondent killed near Aachen; both for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Harry Bridges, 45, Communist-line president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (C.I.O.); and Nancy Feinstein Berdecio, 33; both for the second time; in San Francisco.

Divorced. By Eileen Herrick Lowther, 26, 1940 "Juliet" of the tabloids: George Lowther III, 36, publicity-minded "Romeo," who brought along a reporter and two cameramen on their elopement; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Anthony Lombardi Jr., 14, semi-invalid juvenile delinquent, whose flogging at the Colorado Industrial School for Boys aroused Coloradoans to demand statewide reform of prison practice and discipline (TIME, Sept. 30); of rheumatic heart disease; in Denver. Cried Mrs. Angeline Lombardi: "They killed my boy."

Died. Geoffrey De Havilland, 37, Britain's leading test pilot; in a midair explosion while testing a new De Havilland jet plane; over the Thames Estuary, England (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Royal Arch Gunnison, 37, foreign correspondent, author (So Sorry, No Peace), radio newscaster who in 1942 remained in Manila to cover the city's fall, spent 22 months as a Japanese prisoner; in an airplane crash; near Hong Kong.

Died. Charles Kurtsinger, 39, pint-sized "Flying Dutchman" who rode two Kentucky Derby winners (Twenty Grand, 1931; War Admiral, 1937); of pneumonia; in Louisville.

Died. Charles M. ("Jeff") Tesreau, 57, burly, ace spitball pitcher for the late John McGraw's N.Y. Giants (1912-18), Dartmouth baseball coach for 27 years; after a stroke; in Hanover, N.H.

Died. Sir William Ashbee Tritton, 71, British agricultural machinery expert who, in collaboration with W. G. Wilson, designed the Mark I "mother" tank, prototype of all British tanks used during World Wars I and II; in Lincoln, England,

Died. Major General Charles Henry Martin, 82, World War I Commander of the famed Black Hawk Division, who served two terms in Congress, became Oregon's Governor (1935-39), made himself a crusty spokesman for Oregon's anti-New Deal Democrats; in Portland, Ore.

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