Married. Joan Naomi Benny, 19 adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone; and Seth Baker, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; she for the first time, he for the second; in an evening ceremony, followed by a mammoth, $50,000 reception where some 600 guests (including Ethel Merman, Tyrone Power, Bob Hope) consumed 420 bottles of champagne, 700 Ibs. of squab, 600 Ibs. of beef tenderloin; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Marriage Revealed. Donald Will Douglas, 61, founder-president of Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.; and Marguerite Carrie Tucker, 52, his executive assistant; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Oxnard, Calif.

Died. John Lloyd Balderston, 64, foreign correspondent turned playwright, best known in the U.S. for his 1929 Broadway hit, Berkeley Square, and its movie version (1933), both starring the late Leslie Howard; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. Dr. Otto Hermann Diels, 78, retired German organic chemist who, with his ex-pupil, Dr. Kurt Alder, received the 1950 Nobel Prize for chemistry after developing the diene synthesis, a method of artificially producing complex chemical compounds (e.g., cortisone); in Kiel, Germany.

Died. Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder, 79, Ohio-born sculptress, whose best-known work, Spirit of Communication, has long been reproduced as a front-cover illustration on U.S. telephone directories; in Osterville, Mass.

Died. James Aloysius Robert ("Honest Bob") Quinn, 84, veteran baseball executive, who went broke as boss of the Boston Red Sox (1923-33) before selling out to Lumber Millionheir Tom Yawkey, later became president of the Boston Braves (1936-45), director of the National Baseball Museum (1948-52); in Providence.

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