Married. Gordon Evans Dean, 47, who retired last June after almost three years as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission to become an executive of Lehman Bros.. Manhattan investment bankers; and Mary Benton Gore, 33, daughter of a Washington real estate man and cousin of Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore; he for the second time (his first marriage ended in divorce in September), she for the first; in Potomac. Md.

Died. Rebecca ("Becky") Buhay, 57. one of the founders of Canada's Workers' (Communist) Party in 1922; of cancer; in Toronto. When the government temporarily outlawed the party in 1940 for opposing the war effort. Becky Buhay went underground, and in 1943 emerged to help reorganize 18,000 Canadian Communists under a new alias: the Labor-Progressive Party (current membership: 10,000).

Died. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 57, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist of backwoods Florida (The Yearling, Golden Apples); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Augustine. Fla. For ten years, hopeful Author Rawlings worked on newspapers, potboiled syndicated verse, wrote (but seldom sold) short stories. In 1928 she settled in Florida's remote swamp country, three years later won a Scribner's novelette contest, turned out two popular novels before The Yearling (1938) won her fame and a fortune in royalties. In 1942 she accurately recorded the manners & morals of her adopted neighbors (Cross Creek), when death came was hard at work on a biography of Virginia Novelist Ellen Glasgow.

Died. Edward Grant ("Ed") Barrow. 85, longtime business manager (1920-39) and president (1939-45) of baseball's pennant-winning New York Yankees; of cancer; in Port Chester, N.Y. Barred from a career as a pitcher after he strained his arm, he tried running a hotel, selling hot dogs in ballparks, peddling soap, before he went back to baseball. As manager of the Boston Red Sox (1919), he converted Southpaw Pitcher Babe Ruth into an outfielder to give him more turns at bat, and (with Ruth) moved to New York. By deals, trades and good scouting, Ed Barrow provided the Yankees with a constant flow of fresh talent (e.g., Waite Hoyt, Charley Keller, Joe DiMaggio), built teams that won 14 pennants, ten world championships during his 25-year reign.

Died. Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 85, Nobel Prizewinning physicist (1923), longtime head of California Institute of Technology (1921-46); in San Marino, Calif. Physicist Millikan isolated the electron and measured its charge (for which he got the Nobel Prize), investigated the character and origin of cosmic rays. Deeply religious, he never doubted that "the Creator is still on the job."

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