Divorced. Franchot Tone, 53, Cornell-educated (Phi Beta Kappa) actor; by Actress Dolores Dorn-Heft Tone, 23, his fourth wife; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. M. Zakaria Goneim, 48, United Arab Republic Egyptologist, who in 1953 discovered a pyramid built nearly 5,000 years ago in the Third Dynasty reign of Sekhem-Khet; apparently by his own hand (his body was found floating in the Nile); at Cairo. Heralded as one of the most significant Egyptological discoveries since Britain's Howard Carter found Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, Goneim's "lost pyramid" was thought to hold the mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival (a ceremony which supposedly reinvigorated the old Pharaohs) or as a tomb for the ka, the invisible double who went along everywhere as the secret sharer of an ancient Egyptian's life and death.

Died. G.D.H. (for George Douglas Howard) Cole, 69. grand old sachem of British socialism, Oxford don. Labor intellectual, president of the Fabian Society, chairman of the New Statesman, energetic author (A History of Socialist Thought, The Intelligent Man's Guide through World Chaos) who also wrote whodunits with his wife (Murder in the Munition Works)] in London. After onetime Prime Minister Clement Attlee was elevated to the peerage, G.D.H. Cole sneeringly wondered how a Laborite could "wish to be so degraded." Wrote New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin last week: "Douglas Cole was a secular saint."

Died. Eivind Berggrav, 74, retired Primate of Norway's State Lutheran Church (TIME Cover. Dec. 25. 1944), spiritual leader of World War 11 resistance against Vidkun Quisling and the Nazis, formerly a president of the World Council of Churches; in Oslo.

Died. Andre de Fouquieres, 83, Parisian arbiter of elegance; in Paris. Author of such tastemaking volumes as Modern Courtesy, Of Art and Elegance in Charity and Fifty Years of Panache, M. de Fouquieres was the city's guide to de rigueur. Unimpeachably masculine (Croix de guerre with citations), he told the dandies of Paris to wear gloves and keep their cigarette-lighter wicks trimmed as acts of thoughtfulness to their ladies. "We must defend Paris," he said, "against the hatless." With full dress there could be no compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal it was a "masterpiece of vulgarity and ugliness." The live-modern age could not be forgiven because it had "killed dilettantism." Tastefully, Le Figaro said of his death: "Andre de Fouquieres leaves Parisian life at the dawn of the epoch of severity. Animator of so many fetes and rejoicings of other times, he disappears as if by discretion."

Died. Edward John Baker, 90, owner of the great trotter Greyhound, millionaire benefactor of St. Charles, Ill. (TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once--so they say--bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker.

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