Married. Gregory Peck, 40, lanky, Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday); and Veronique Passani, 22, half-Russian, half-Corsican Parisian newshen; 19 hours after his twelve-year-old marriage (three children) finally ended in divorce; in Lompoc, Calif.

Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines.

Died. Christopher La Farge, 58, novelist (The Sudden Guest) and poet; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Providence.

Died. Dr. Joseph Wirth, 76, Chancellor of two German governments (1921 and 1922), signer of the German-Russian friendship pact at Rapallo in 1922, winner of the Stalin Peace Prize for 1955; of a heart ailment; in Freiburg, Germany.

Died. Sir James Hamet Dunn, 81, Canadian financier; of a heart ailment; in St. Andrews, N.B. As a young lawyer, Dunn edged his way into corporate financing, was soon selling up to $10 million worth of securities a day and pocketing daily commissions up to $60,000. U.S. Banker Otto Kahn called him "a greater financier than all of us." Britain awarded him a baronetcy (one of the few hereditary titles ever given a Canadian) for his World War I services in halting shipments of neutral nickel to Germany. In 1932, by investing a mere $8,000,000 in its depressed bonds, Dunn got control of Canada's $75 million Algoma Steel Corp., eventually parlayed the value of Algoma's stock from $7 to $375 a share.

Died. Mistinguett, nee Jeanne Bourgeois, 82, French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music hall of her time. The peak of her long career came early in the century when she played at the Folies-Bergere, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with Maurice Chevalier ("He was more than just a partner. He was my whole life"). Through all the glitter of her days of fame, she held on to her native French bon sens, acquired a heap of cash, a mound of jewels, three big houses and a limpid philosophy: "I love money. Not just to spend. I like to keep it--wash my hands in it."

Died. George H. Doran, 86, who rose from a $2-a-week bookstore clerk to become co-publisher of the old Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., one of the world's biggest book publishers; in Toronto. A publisher with a mind of his own, Doran refused to publish D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow on moral grounds, was allegedly called a coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual force, no moral fiber. Great Scott, I'm no Victorian prude. But a publisher has to draw the line somewhere."

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