Married. John Francis Kieran, 55, radio's gnomelike Information, Please know-it-all; and Margaret Ford, 42, Sunday editor of the Boston Herald; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1944), she for the first; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Hans Kahle, 48, commander of the Loyalist International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, original of the General in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls; after a stomach operation; in Ludwigslust, Soviet Zone of Germany. The Russians had rewarded Kahle's faithful Party work by making him chief of police of Mecklenburg state.

Died. Lieut. General Ross Erastus Rowell (ret.), 62, Marine Corps aviator, credited as originator of dive-bombing tactics; of coronary thrombosis; in San Diego, Calif. During the 1927 Nicaraguan uprising, an outpost of U.S. Marines was surrounded by 600 rebels; Rowell loaded up his De Havilland biplanes with 17-lb. bombs, pinpointed them by diving at the target, routed the enemy. He later demonstrated his technique at the 1932 Cleveland Air Races. Looking on: Luftwaffe Colonel General Ernst Udet, who commented: "We ought to try it in Germany." They did. Result: the famed Stukas.

Died. Sophie Paschkis Lehar, 69, wife of Operetta King Franz Lehar; of angina; in Zurich, Switzerland. Lehar refused a Nazi demand that he leave Sophie (a Jewess), escaped persecution in Germany because his Merry Widow was Hitler's favorite operetta.

Died. Mary Emma Woolley, 84, women's-rights pioneer, longtime fighter for peace through disarmament, longtime (1900-'37) president of Mount Holyoke College; after long illness; in Westport, N.Y. Herbert Hoover rewarded her crusading by making her the only woman delegate to the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference. Massive, energetic Miss Woolley strode into the job with confidence ("Women rush in where diplomats fear to tread," said she), came back just as discouraged as the male delegates. When a man succeeded her at Mount Holyoke, shocked Miss Woolley never set foot on the campus again.

Died. Major Frederick Russell Burnham, 86, oldtime Indian scout, Klondike prospector, soldier of fortune; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Barbara, Calif. At various times a cowboy, stagecoach-guard and deputy sheriff, Burnham fought in campaigns against the Apaches, in South Africa's bloody Matabele Wars (which he virtually ended singlehanded by killing the Matabele god M'Limo in a cave), and in the Boer War. Back home in California, he struck it rich in the oil business, spent the rest of his life in prosperous comfort.

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