Married. William Clay Ford, 22, and Martha Firestone, 21, grandchildren of the late great cronies Motormaker Henry Ford and Tiremaker Harvey Firestone; in Akron.

Divorced. By Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 60, one of baseball's alltime greats, whose early dabbling in Coca-Cola stock brought him a small fortune: Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb, 57, mother of his five children; after almost 30 years: in Reno.

Died. Jim Tully, 56, onetime pug, hobo and successful writer (during the '20s) of high-flavored, aggressively crude novels (Shanty Irish, Jarnegan, Beggars of Life); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles.

Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe lovingly caricatured Good Friend Perkins as "Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile! How straight in cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness, and for envy too serene, too fair for blind intolerance, too just and seeing and too strong for hate, too honest for base dealing, too high for low suspiciousness, too innocent for all the scheming tricks of swarming villain yet never had been taken in a horse trade yet!"

Died. Julian Day, 68, one of the four red-haired sons of famed father Clarence (Life with Father) Day, terrible-tempered hero of Broadway's longest-run play; after long illness; in Lugano, Switzerland. The "Whitney" of the play inspired by brother Clarence's stories, Expatriate Julian served in Britain's World War I Camel Corps, later became a British subject and a successful London banker.

Died. Albert Ellsworth Thomas, 74, prolific writer of nimble and successful plays (The Big Idea, Come Out of the Kitchen, No More Ladies), onetime 1926-28) chairman of the Pulitzer Prize drama jury; after long illness; in Wakefield, R.I.

Died. Colonel John Henry Patterson, 79, zealous, Irish-born Protestant who became a Zionist leader; in Los Angeles. Famed as soldier and big-game hunter, Colonel Patterson commanded the British Army's World War I Jewish Legion, enjoyed the esteem of Fellow Hunter Teddy Roosevelt.

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