Married. Olga Fikotova, 24, dark-eyed Czechoslovakian Olympic discus-hurling champ (a record 176 ft. 1 1/2 in.); and U.S. Olympic Team's Harold Connolly, 25, hammer-throw gold medalist and world-record holder (224 ft. 10 1/2 in.); in Prague.

Married. Edward H. Litchfield, 42, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, educator, businessman (TIME, Jan. 7), who was called to Germany by General Lucius D. Clay to direct the postwar program to re-establish German political unity; and Mary Carolyn Morrill, 31, sometime Government employee; he for the second time, she for the first; in Hiawatha, Kans.

Died. Eugene (Gene) Lockhart, 64, versatile character actor of stage (The Handy Man, Death of a Salesman) and screen (Algiers, Going My Way), father of Actress June Lockhart (For Love or Money); of a coronary thrombosis; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Christopher Darlington Morley, 66, bearded poet, essayist, critic, playwright, author of some 50 books (Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Thunder on the Left, Kitty Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube":

Editor in Geometry you're a rube!

Putt yourself together, excellent biped--On page 71 you call a "cube" What should be a parallelepiped.

Died. Murray W. Garsson, 67, sometime millionaire munitions maker and financier, who was convicted in 1947 in a bribery and conspiracy scandal involving Government war contracts, served 19 months in prison (1949-51), and ended his days homeless, borrowing small sums from his doctor for barbiturates; of a brain hemorrhage; in New York City. At war's end Garsson and his brother Henry, a consulting engineer, pasted together a paper empire (once valued at $78 million) of contracts for shells, mortars and aircraft parts, worked with lavish expense accounts through the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Kentucky's Representative Andrew ("Handy Andy") Jackson May, who was convicted with them.

Died. Joyce Cary, 68, Anglo-Irish novelist (Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim) whose tenth novel, The Horse's Mouth, written when he was 54, first brought him broad recognition as a major writer, who worked to the end despite a rare, fatal nerve disease which struck (1954) and progressively paralyzed him; in Oxford, England. Propped up in his wheelchair or bed, with his arm supported by a rope, his pen tied to his hand, he faced death calmly, worked until his limbs were useless, then dictated until his power of speech was gone.

Died. Edouard Herriot, 84, three times (1924, '26, '32) Premier of France, whose career stretched over half a century, paralleled the Third Republic; in Lyon. Elected mayor of Lyon at 33, a Senator at 40, witty, erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts. He irresolutely stuck to Marshal Petain's Cabinet in 1940, but two years later protested the twisting of the constitution into a dictatorship, was arrested by the Nazis and held until near war's end, when he politely refused the offer of Pierre Laval to form a provisional government.

Died. John Butler (Jack B.) Yeats, 85, younger brother of the late Poet William Butler Yeats and Ireland's leading painter, known for his canvases filled with tinkers, tavern loafers, pirates and circus performers idling about Dublin's streets; in Dublin.

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