Married. Joe ("the Brown Bomber") Louis, 41, longtime (1937-49) world heavyweight boxing champion; and Rose Morgan, 41, Harlem cosmetics manufacturer; on Christmas Day in Manhattan.

Died. Ham (Hammond Edward) Fisher, 54, creator of the comic strip Joe Palooka; by his own hand, in Manhattan.

Died. Robert Garland, 60, drama critic (1943-51) for the New York Journal-American, and playwright (The Double Miracle)] of a stroke; in Manhattan.

Died. Arthur Ernest ("Jock") Tiffin, 60, head, since June, 1955, of Britain's largest (1,300,000) and most influential labor union, the Transport and General Workers' Union; of cancer; in London.

Died. Roger Steffan, 62, longtime (1929-53) vice president of the National City Bank of New York, aide to Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams as White House business manager in 1953, economic adviser to the U.S. Mission to Nationalist China on Formosa in 1954; of a heart attack; at his ranch in Vista, Calif.

Died. Ely Culbertson, 64, high priest of contract bridge, author (Contract Bridge Blue Book, The Strange Lives of One Man), founder and president of the peace-minded World Federation Inc.; of a lung congestion; in Brattleboro, Vt. Culbertson introduced new methods of contract bridge, made his name a household word after he parlayed national publicity gained from his six-week tournament with Sydney S. Lenz in 1931 (referee: Lieut. Al Gruenther, now boss of NATO) into one of the large Depression fortunes.

Died. John Punnett Peters, 68, senior professor of medicine at Yale University, author (Body Water and Quantitative

Clinical Chemistry); of a heart ailment; in Wallingford, Conn. Dismissed in 1953 by the U.S. Loyalty Review Board as part-time consultant (about ten days a year) to the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Peters held that he had a constitutional right to face his nameless accusers, fought his case to the Supreme Court. The outcome: the court ducked the constitutional issue, found that the board did not have the authority to review Peters' case, since he had been cleared twice previously.

Died. Pauline Morton Davis, 67, widow of Dwight Davis (Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge and tennis' Davis Cup donor), founder (1929) of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, first woman member (1924) of the Republican National Committee; after long illness; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Ludwig Lewisohn, 72, German-born author (Upstream, Goethe: The Story of a Man), translator (works of Rilke, Werfel), Zionist, professor of comparative literature at Brandeis University since 1948; in Miami Beach.

Died. Cyril Forster Garbett, 80, outspoken Archbishop of York since 1942? and second-ranking prelate of the Church of England; two days before he was to be named a baron in the Queen's New Year's honors list (see PEOPLE) ; after long illness; in York, England.

Died. William H. Danforth, 85, founder (1893) and board chairman of Ralston Purina Co., philanthropist ($100,000 in 1954 to further the spiritual growth of Vassar students), author (Dare You); of a heart attack as he awaited the arrival of carol singers from the National Christmas Carols Association, which he founded in 1911; in St. Louis.

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