Divorced. By Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 31, toothy, Texas-born songstress of radio & screen: Hyatt Robert Dehn, 40, building contractor, who was dropped from New York's Social Register when he married Ginny; after nearly five years of marriage, two sons; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Ralph Greenleaf, 50, dapper, 16-time world champion of pocket billiards; of bronchial pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Greenleaf, who did for pool what Babe Ruth did for baseball, set an official world's record in 1929 of 126 balls without a miss, once, in an exhibition match, pocketed 269 straight balls.

Died. General Muir S. ("Sandy") Fairchild, 55, No. 2 man of the U.S. Air Force (Vice Chief of Staff); of coronary thrombosis; at Fort Myer, Va.

Died. Basil Garwood ("Professor Lam-berti") Lambert, 58, "mad xylophonist" of vaudeville; after long illness; in Hollywood. Professor Lamberti's best known act: he played repeated xylophone encores, to wild applause, apparently unaware that a stripteuse was performing behind his back.

Died. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, 72, tireless prohibitionist, founder (1919) of the World League Against Alcoholism, onetime editor of Anti-Saloon League publications (The American Issue, The American Patriot); of cancer; in Worthington, Ohio.

Died. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 74, multimillionaire creator of Tarzan; in Encino, Calif. Since 1914, his 23 Tarzan books have sold nearly 30 million copies in 58 languages and dialects. Other sources of income: royalties on 26 movies that netted him over $5,000,000; comic strips once published in 400 newspapers; a score of trademark classifications on apeman articles from G-strings to bread-wrappers.

Died. Dr. Adolf Meyer, 83, Swiss-born doctor who became one of the U.S.'s topflight psychiatric teachers and researchers, director for 31 years of Johns Hopkins's Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic; in Baltimore.

Died. Ellis A. Gimbel, 84, department-store magnate (Gimbel Brothers, Inc., Saks Fifth Avenue), philanthropist; in Philadelphia.

Died. Alice Stone Blackwell, 92, pioneer suffragette, daughter of Bloomer Girl Lucy Stone and Abolitionist Henry B. Blackwell; in Cambridge, Mass. Spinster Blackwell once remarked, after women had been voting for 25 years: "Women's suffrage hasn't done all the good we intended it should [but] neither has it done the harm its opponents predicted."

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