Married. Sonja Henie, 43, Norwegian-born ice skater and sometime cinemactress (Sun Valley Serenade); and Niels Onstad, 46, wealthy Norwegian shipping executive; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Gene Nelson (real name: Eugene Berg), 36, nimble-footed actor of stage (Lend an Ear) and screen (Oklahoma!); by Miriam Franklin Nelson, 32; after 13 years of marriage, three of separation, one child; in Los Angeles.

Died. Margaret Thompson Biddle, 59, Montana-born mining heiress, ex-wife of wealthy Soldier-Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., grande dame of American society in Paris since World War II, sometime authoress (Women' of England) and Paris newshen (Realties, farflung columnist for Woman's Home Companion); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris.

Died. Fletcher Pratt, 59, bearded, gnome-like military-affairs expert, prolific writer (The Marines' War, Empire and the Sea, Secret and Urgent), onetime newspaperman, military librarian, and military analyst for TIME; of cancer; at Long Branch, N.J. Born into a military family, Pratt also indulged in such encyclopedic interests as raising marmosets, cracking codes, inventing war games.

Died. Admiral Charles Turner Joy, U.S.N., ret., 61. chief U.N. negotiator of the Korean War truce talks at Panmunjom from July 1951 to May 1952, onetime (1949-52) commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, 37th superintendent (1952-54) of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, author (How Communists Negotiate); of leukemia: in San Diego. To Admiral Joy, the three-year Korean conflict was a tragic "holy war" which the U.N., by failing to press its advantages, lost to the Communists.

Died. William Edward Leahy, 69, Washington lawyer and civic leader, longtime (since 1932) president of Washington's Columbus University Law School, sometime (1925, 1947) special assistant to U.S. attorney generals; of a heart attack; in Washington. Leahy's clients included: Bigtime Mobsters Al Capone and Dutch Schultz, Federal Judge Martin T. Manton,

Boston's ex-Mayor James Michael Curley, the United Mine Workers, the American Medical Association, the Chinese Nationalist government.

Died. Marie Laurencin, 72, topflight French modernist painter, famed for her wispy, pastel-toned portraits of doe-eyed young girls in diaphanous gowns; of a heart attack; in Paris. Prim, red-haired Painter Laurencin tried three times to enter Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux Arts, was coldly blocked. Critics labeled her early work "decadent" and "ugly." After World War I, she changed her style, was later described as the only considerable figure who painted like a woman. ("Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.")

Died. Margaret Wycherly, 74, veteran British-born actress of stage (Jane Clegg, Tobacco Road) and screen (Sergeant York); in Manhattan.

Died. Hiram Bingham, 80, onetime (1924-33) Republican Senator from Connecticut, head (1951-53) of the U.S. Government's Loyalty Review Board (to which he was appointed by Harry Truman to counter Republican charges that the Administration was harboring disloyal employees), World War I aviator, history teacher (at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins), explorer-author (Lost City of the Incas) and biographer (Elihu Yale--The American Nabob of Queen Square); after long illness; in Washington. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), scholarly Hiram Bingham was one of four legislators censured by the U.S. Senate in its 167-year history (the others: South Carolina's John L. McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, 1902; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, 1954). In 1929 he brought (as his aide) a Connecticut manufacturers' lobbyist into a closed session of the Senate Finance Committee which was considering a tariff bill of special interest to manufacturers. But politics was never his true province. An irrepressible adventurer, Honolulu-born Hiram Bingham led the first ascent of the Andes' Coropuna (21.700 ft.), discovered the famed Andean ruins of Machu Picchu. "Senators," he once said, "I understand not at all. I understand so much better the ethics and morals of explorers."

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