Married. Sterling Hayden, 31, blond Hollywood stalwart ex-marine captain who ran guns to Tito for the OSS; and Betty de Noon, 25, blonde Pasadena, Calif, socialite; both for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll); in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Married. Nino Martini, 42, short (5 ft. 7), tall-voiced (high F) Metropolitan Opera tenor; and Nancy Maloney Tafel, 26; he for the first time, she for the second; in Stamford, Conn.

Married. Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, roth Marquess of Queensberry, 51, grandson of the man who supervised the formulation of the modern prize ring's rules (a boxing expert himself, the Marquess came to the U.S. last May to report the Louis-Conn bout for the London Daily Graphic); and Mimi Gore Chunn, 36, secretary of his wartime Queensberry All-Service Boxing Club; he for the third time, she for the second; in London, without the ring, which he had left at home.

Divorced. Anthony Drexel Duke, 28, millionaire (Lucky Strike) great-grandson of Tobacco Baron Washington Duke; by Alice Rutgers Duke, 26, pretty, freckled Johnson & Johnson (Band-Aid) kin; after seven years, two children; in Reno.

Died. Anna Sage (real name: Ana Cumpanas), 58, the "woman in red" who 13 years ago pointed out Public Enemy John Dillinger to FBI men, who thereupon shot him dead; of a liver ailment; in Timisoara, Rumania, where she was deported in 1936 for running a Gary, Ind. brothel.

Died. Evalyn Walsh McLean, 60, Washington's most famed and lavish hostess, owner of the reputedly unlucky 44 1/4-carat Hope Diamond (estimated value: anything up to $2 million) ; of pneumonia; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Lewis Edward Lawes, 63, famed, longtime (1920-41) warden of New York's Sing Sing* Prison; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Garrison, N.Y. Jailer-Author Lawes (Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing), a foe of capital punishment, was required by his job to witness 303 executions, bowed his head when the electric chair's 2,000 volts jolted out a human life.

Died. John Crichton-Stuart, fourth Marquess of Bute, 65, publicity-shy multimillionaire (an estimated $200 million), who in 1938 made probably the biggest real-estate sale in Empire history (half of the city of Cardiff, Wales, for about $32 million); of cerebral thrombosis; at Mountstuart, the Isle of Bute.

Died. Willa Sibert Gather (rhymes with blather), 70, reticent, strong-minded, spinster novelist of frontier Nebraska (O Pioneers, My Antonio), sensitive weaver of fictional-historical backgrounds (Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock), for two decades one of the most honored of U.S. writers, famed as a placid, frugal literary stylist ("Every fine story must leave in the mind ... a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. At 18, in mannish clothes and shingle bob, she was a spectacular senior at the University of Nebraska; at 31 she became managing editor of McClure's Magazine; at 46 she won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, her Nebraska-World War I novel. In later years stocky, low-heeled, inclined to crotchets, she shunned publicity, rarely appeared in public, refused to allow any more of her books to be filmed after Hollywood botched The Lost Lady, spent much of her time in maritime Canada or the Park Avenue apartment where she died, far from the rolling Nebraska country that she once called her "grand passion."

Died. Charles J. ffoulkes,/- 78, creator and curator (1920-33) of London's Imperial War Museum, storehouse of British war trophies; in London. Designer of heraldic badges for many of the Royal Navy's ships, ffoulkes was considered one of the greatest authorities on arms and armor, traced the tank back to Xenophon's drepanephoros (scythe-armed car).

Died. Joseph Hannaford, 87, leader (and one of the founders) of the House of David, the bearded, vegetarian, baseball-playing Michigan religious cult that claims to be descendants of one of the twelve lost tribes of Israel; in Benton Harbor, Mich.

*Named for the Sintsink Indians, who used to camp on the site. /- Antiquarian ffoulkes (pronounced "fowkes," with the "ow" as in "cow") insisted on the medieval spelling of his name; two small "f"s instead of a single capital.

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