Divorced. By Cinemactress Betty (Annie Get Your Gun) Hutton, 29: Theodore ("Ted") Briskin, 32, Chicago camera maker; after 4 1/2 years of marriage, two daughters, four months of interlocutory divorce, four months of reconciliation; in Santa Monica, Calif, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Maxence van der Meersch, 43, Flemish-born French novelist (Invasion; Hath Not the Potter, which won 1936's Prix Goncourt), in Le Touquet.

Died. Dwight Deere Wiman, 55, Illinois-born Broadway producer (The Little Show, The Country Girl), an heir to the John Deere plow fortune; after a brief illness; in Hudson, N.Y.

Died. Benjamin Stolberg, 59, labor historian (The Story of the C.T.O., Tailor's Progress, a study of the I.L.G.W.U.), of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An anti-Stalinist leftist, Stolberg aimed his savage epigrams at both Republicans and the New Deal, management & labor.

Died. Jack (Charles John) Holt, 62, oldtime cinemactor (Born to the West), father of Cinema Cowboy Tim Holt; of coronary thrombosis; in West Los Angeles. Born in Virginia, the son of an Episcopal minister and great-great-grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall, Holt had hard experience as sandhog, Alaska pioneer and Oregon ranchhand before his hard face became known to millions of moviegoers.

Died. Charles Benedict Driscoll, 65, editor and columnist; of a heart attack; in Yonkers, N.Y. As editor of McNaught Syndicate, he hired as writers such famed names as Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. When his star columnist, O.O. Mclntyre, died in 1938, Driscoll took over the "New York Day by Day" column.

Died. William Henry McReynolds, 70, "No. 1 civil servant"; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. McReynolds went to work in Washington in 1906, won a reputation for knowing all the ins & outs of capital red tape, became, as an administrative assistant (1939-45), an expert expediter for Franklin Roosevelt.

Died. Natalie Satin Rachmaninoff, 70, widow of the late pianist-composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Alys Pearsall Smith Russell, 83, of Philadelphia's Quaker Smiths,* first wife (1894-1921) of British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom she divorced when he had a child by another woman; in London.

*Daughter of Preacher Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911), sister of Essayist Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946).

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