Marriage Revealed. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 48, polar-exploring airman (he flew Admiral Byrd through Antarctica in 1929), wartime command pilot on Scandinavian missions for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces; and Bess Engelbrechtsen, 26, Oslo journalist who helped publish an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation; he for the second time, she for the first; on Feb. 26; in Oslo.

Divorced. Mickey Rooney, 27, Hollywood's Hardy family perennial now grown to he-man's estate (Killer McCoy); by wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase Rooney, 21, whom he married when he was a private and she "Miss Birmingham"; after three years and eight months of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: $100,000 over ten years, $25,000 for a new house, $5,000 a year for the children.

Died. The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 33, erratic blonde friend of Adolf Hitler (who called her "the perfect example of Nordic beauty)," sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, fourth daughter of Baron Redesdale of Redesdale;* reportedly of meningitis; in Oban, Scotland. Unity, suffering from a mysteriously inflicted bullet wound, was sent home from Germany at Christmas 1939, in a special train ordered by Hitler.

Died. Sidney Preston Osborn, 64, ninth governor of Arizona; of progressive muscular paralysis/- in Phoenix. Unable to speak or write towards the end, Osborn insisted on being carried to his office, where he "dictated" by pointing at an alphabet, registered opinion by nodding.

Died. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr., 73, muscular Christian, father of the wartime ambassador to the governments in exile; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in Syosset, N.Y. He founded the Drexel Biddle Bible Classes in 1907 (their curriculum of fighting-&-praying ultimately attracted 200,000 members), taught jujitsu and dirty fighting to Marines in both World Wars.

Died. Dame** May Whitty, 82, peppery, untiring stage-&-screen actress, wife of onetime Matinee Idol Ben Webster, mother of Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Hollywood. She made her name in England in the '80s with Richard Mansfield, in the U.S. with the Sir Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company in 1895. In later years she turned to the cinema, made an immediate hit in Hollywood's Night Must Fall, another in Britain's The Lady Vanishes.

*Another daughter, Jessica, married the late Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's Communist nephew.

/-The disease that killed Ballplayer Lou Gehrig. --

**The first actress to be made a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, she received the title for her nontheatrical hospital work in World War I.

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