Married. Pauline Betz, 29, green-eyed, red-haired U.S. tennis queen (four-time winner of the U.S. Women's Singles: 1942-43-44-46), who turned professional nearly two years ago; and Robert Addie, 38, sports columnist for the Washington Times-Herald; in Los Angeles.

Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif.

Died. William Rust, 45, cockney-born founding member of the British Communist Party and since 1930 editor of the London Daily Worker (circ. 120,000); of a stroke; in London.

Died. Brigadier General Ira L. Kimes (ret.), 49, Marine Air Group commander at Midway Island (June 1942), who got the D.S.C. for standing off a Japanese task force until U.S. carrier planes came to the rescue; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Al ("Frenchy") LaRue (real name: Egidio Romagnoli), 60, self-styled ex-triggerman for the Capone mob, who was deported from the U.S. to Italy in 1938,* later tagged along with invading G.I.s as a scout (he got the Bronze Star); by his own hand (automatic pistol); during a police checkup; in Trieste.

Died. Herbert Stothart, 64, top-ranking composer of M-G-M cinemusical scores (Rose Marie, May time); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A onetime collaborator with Franz Lehar, Rudolph Friml and George Gershwin, Stothart won the 1939 Academy Award for his sprightly, hard-to-forget score for The Wizard of Oz.

Died. Franklin Thomas Baker, 84, longtime professor of English at Columbia's Teachers College (1893-1933), author of such teachers' aids as Every Day English (in collaboration with A. H. Thorndike) and The Teaching of English; of a heart ailment; in Yonkers, N.Y.

Died. Arthur George Leonard, 86, longtime president (since 1912) of the Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., which operates the enormous Chicago stockyards ($700 million business last year); in Chicago.

Died. Dr. John Elmer Weeks, 95, internationally known ophthalmologist and discoverer (with German Bacteriologist Robert Koch) of the bacillus which causes acute contagious conjunctivitis (pinkeye); in La Jolla, Calif.

* He once remarked: "I would rather be in jail in the U.S. than live in Italy."

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