Married. Mala Powers, 22, auburn-haired cinemactress (Outrage, Cyrano de Bergerac) who nearly died from a blood disease acquired in a 1951 Christmas entertainment tour in Korea; and Monte Vanton, 36, real estate broker; in Hollywood.

Died. Maurice Bedel, 69, French satiric novelist (Jerome: Sixty Degrees North Latitude, The New Arcadia], winner (in 1927) of the Goncourt Prize, chronicler in his prewar novels of the evils of Fascism and Naziism; of uremia; in Chatellerault, France.

Died. Theodore Lyman, 79, retired Harvard physicist and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society; in Cambridge, Mass. A pioneer in the investigation of ultraviolet radiation, tall, aloof Bachelor Lyman discovered the "Lyman series" of wave lengths, which contributed fundamentally to the development of atomic theory.

Died. Edward Hull Crump, 80, since 1909 the iron-fisted boss of Memphis and, for two decades, of the whole state of Tennessee; of a heart ailment; in Memphis. Born into grinding poverty in the Mississippi backwoods of carpetbagger days, foxy Ed Crump got control of Memphis' Shelby County when he was elected mayor at 35, moved into state politics in the '205. From 1930 (when the stock-market crash removed his last rival) until Estes Kefauver's successful insurrection in 1948, he ruled Tennessee politics with a benevolent but despotic grip, faithfully delivered, election in and election out, 60,000-vote majorities to his hand-picked candidates. White-maned Boss Crump, with a grandpappy grin and an eloquent gift for invective (he once said that an opponent would "milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence"), gave Memphis emerald-green parks, good schools and libraries, roared around town yelling "Hiya, boy" at anyone who would look his way (and all Memphians did), got rich on an insurance company that everyone in his bailiwick clamored to patronize.

Died. David Coupar Thomson, 93, Scottish press lord and bitter anti-trade-unionist; in Dundee, Scotland. Owner of three newspapers (including the Glasgow Sunday Post, with the largest Sunday circulation in Scotland), Publisher Thomson made his employees sign contracts that forbade them to join unions, was finally forced to back down in 1952 in the face of a threatened boycott of the Trades Union Congress and affiliated unions. His papers always bore the imprint of his crusty personality. After a row with Winston Churchill in 1922 over a political speech, he barred Churchill's name from the Thomson papers until World War II made occasional use of it unavoidable.

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