Married. Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 19; and British Actor Michael Wilding, 39; both for the second time; in London (see PEOPLE).

Divorced. August A. Busch Jr., 52, hereditary president of Anheuser-Busch Inc. (Budweiser beer) ; by Elizabeth Overton Dozier Busch, 56, who also won a $1,000,000 financial settlement after charg ing him with "general indignities," desertion in 1945; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in St. Louis.

Killed in Action. Lieut, (j.g.) David Tatum, 24, U.S. Navy jet-fighter pilot and the courageous conscience of TIME'S com posite 1950 Fighting Man of the Year (TIME, Jan. 1, 1951); while on a routine heckling mission during which his Panther jet fighter, based on the carrier Valley Forge, was hit by flak, crashed and exploded on a mountain ten miles west of Wonsan, North Korea.

Died. Brownlee Owen Currey, 51, investment banker and president of Equitable Securities Corp.; of anemia; in Nashville, Tenn. Starting as a bank clerk while a Vanderbilt undergraduate, Currey wound up as a transit king (American Express Co.), publisher (Southern Agriculturist, Farm and Ranch), city bus-system czar (in Akron, Nashville, Richmond, etc.).

Died. Air Marshal (ret.) Harold Edwards, 59, Royal Canadian Air Force overseas chief in World War II, who helped build the Britain-based R.C.A.F. from a handful of planes into a 40-squadron command; after long illness; at his winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Died. Anna Maria Whitaker Pennypacker, 74, crusading spinster (and daughter of Pennsylvania's 1903-07 governor, Samuel W. Pennypacker) who was convinced that Communism is something her American Revolutionary ancestors would have approved and became a part-owner (1941-51) of the New York Daily Worker; after long illness ; in Philadelphia. A typical inspiration: after her only visit to the U.S.S.R., in 1934, Anna campaigned to have the Communists' annual Lenin memorial jamboree held in Convention Hall.

Died. Robert D. Towne, 86, onetime Universalist minister who propounded, while he was editor of the now-defunct humor weekly Judge, the famed "How-old-is-Ann?" riddle that intrigued the U.S.; after long illness; in Ambler, Pa. The riddle: "Mary is 24. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. How old is Ann"?*

Died. Knut Hamsun, 92, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for his novel Growth of the Soil; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Grimstad, Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS).

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