Divorced. Robert Montgomery, 46, cinemactor (Night Must Fall), radio commentator, TV director (Robert Montgomery Presents); by Elizabeth Allen Montgomery, 43, onetime actress; after 22 years of marriage; two children; in Las Vegas, Nev. Six days later, Montgomery married Mrs. Elisabeth Grant Harkness, 41, Manhattan socialite, in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 53, character actress who currently plays radio's "Beulah," the first Negro to win Hollywood's Academy Award (for 1939's best supporting performance, in Gone With the Wind); fourth husband Larry Williams, fiftyish, interior decorator; in Los Angeles, after she testified that their five months together had been marred by "arguing and fussing." Died. Oliver Frederick George Stanley, 54, witty Tory member of the House of Commons since 1924, onetime War Secretary (1940) and Colonial Secretary (1942-45); after long illness; in Reading, England.

Died. Clarence Baker Goshorn, 57, president (1942-50) of Benton & Bowles, Inc., one of the nation's top ten advertising agencies, since 1949 chairman of the board of the "4 A's" (American Association of Advertising Agencies); by accidental drowning; in the Bahamas.

Died. Charles Griffith Ross, 65, lifelong friend of Harry Truman, since 1945 presidential press secretary and speechwriter; of a coronary occlusion; in Washington (see PRESS).

Died. General Ma Chan-shan, 65, onetime Chinese war hero; in Peking. Little, shaven-polled General Ma was both an illiterate, sharpshooting militarist (who bragged that he could shoot birds from a galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler.

Died. Herbert Marcus, 72, co-founder (in 1907, with his sister and brother-in-law) of Dallas' mirrored, perfumed, high-styled specialty store, Neiman-Marcus; of a heart attack; in Dallas.

Died. Colonel Charles Franklin Craig, 78, Army expert on tropical medicine, father of the Marines' famed Brigadier General Edward A. Craig, now in Korea (TIME, Aug. 14); in San Antonio.

Died. Sri Aurobindo, 78, Indian poet, philosopher, mystic, who gave up his career as a political revolutionary against British rule, became a religious leader to thousands of followers; of uremia; in Pondicherry, French India.

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