Married. Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller, 30, niece of Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick and editor of his Washington Times-Herald until she quit in a dispute over policy (TIME, April 16), and Garvin E. ("Tank") Tankersley, 39, former Times-Herald assistant managing editor who was first exiled to the Chicago Tribune, fired a couple of months later; both for the second time; at Al-Marah, Bazy's Montgomery County, Md. estate.

Married. Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 45, "perfect wife" of the movies (The Thin Man, Cheaper by the Dozen); and Howland H. Sargeant, 39, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, who last year headed the United States' UNESCO delegation to which she was an adviser; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Fort Myer, Va.

Married. Sir Charles Mendl, 80, onetime British diplomatic press attache and widower of the U.S.-born international society hostess, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl; and Mme. Yvonne Riley, 37, Belgian-born violinist; he for the second time, she for the third; in Paris.

Died. Lieut. Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny, 23, only son of General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Commander in Chief of French forces in Indo-China; of battle wounds received while leading his Viet Nam infantry company against Communist-led Viet Minh forces; 20 miles south of Hanoi, French Indo-China (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Dr. Napoleao Laureano, 36, Brazilian surgeon and cancer expert, who spent his dying days in dramatizing his country's need for better clinics to detect and fight cancer (TIME, March 19); of cancer of the lymphatic tissues; in Rio de Janeiro.

Died. Fannie Brice, 59, leave-'em-laughing star of stage and radio, who worked her way up from amateur nights, began her career in the big-time in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. In a series of turbulent romances she married and left 1) a barber named Frank White, 2) Gambler Nicky Arnstein, 3) Showman Billy Rose, meanwhile won new fame with her famed radio characterization, "Baby Snooks."

Died. John Erskine, 71, professor of English literature at Columbia University (1909-37), novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), concert pianist, music educator (president of Manhattan's Juilliard School, 1928-37); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Starting on a novelist's career at the age of 46, he scored an immediate success with Helen, thereafter wrote 18 more novels in the same mold, using figures from legend and history (Galahad, Adam & Eve, Francois Villon, Venus) to satirize 20th Century manners & morals. At the end he was still writing his streamlined version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Working title: The Wife of Bath and Her Boy Friends.

Died. Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, 85, Archbishop of Philadelphia and senior prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.;* of a stroke, shortly after celebrating Mass on the 61st anniversary of his ordination as a priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler), and led the Roman Catholic theological struggle against the "Independent Philippine Church," founded by Gregorio Aglipay, who had been a Roman Catholic priest in Manila. Dougherty became Archbishop of Philadelphia in 1918, was created a cardinal in 1921, devoted much of his remaining life to traveling in line of duty, was acclaimed the "missionary bishop of the 20th Century."

Died. Dr. George Dock, 91, famed pathologist and associate of the late great Sir William Osier; of a heart attack; in Altadena, Calif. One of the first full-time professors of medicine in the U.S. (at St. Louis' Washington University), he published the first successful diagnosis of coronary thrombosis, wrote scores of wryly humorous papers on a wide variety of medical subjects (typical Dock title: The Advantage of Using Potassium Iodide Until We Have Something Better).

*Reducing the strength of the College of Cardinals (top, 70) to 50, the number of U.S. cardi nals to three: Mooney of Detroit, Stritch of Chicago, Spellman of New York.

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