Marriage Revealed. Gertrude Augusta ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 37, onetime second-magnitude tennis attraction less famed for her overhead than her under wear; and Frank ("Bing") Simpson, 35, Los Angeles lawyer-yachtsman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Hawaii last month.

Died. Alexander Hilsberg, 61, Warsaw-born product of the St. Petersburg violin-prodigy assembly line (others: Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein) who served 20 years as concertmaster of the "ideal orchestra" of his youth, the Philadelphia, before taking over the New Orleans Symphony in 1952; of heart and kidney disease; in Camden, Me.

Died. General Walter Bedell Smith, 65, the U.S.'s steely wheel horse in war and peace, Dwight D. Eisenhower's grand planner from 1942 to 1945, subsequently a State Department and CIA troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington (see THE NATION).

Died. Mei Lan-fang, 67, China's "Great King of Actors," whose willowy grace and flawless falsetto made him the foremost female impersonator in the all-male Chinese classical drama, won him worldwide applause--his 1930 U.S. tour brought him honorary degrees from two U.S. colleges--and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress)--Red China's Premier Chou Enlai.

Died. Julia Mood Peterkin, 80, patrician South Carolina authoress ("I am not a literary person; my career is the plantation"), whose Scarlet Sister Mary, a folk tale of a Negro woman "in a patient struggle with fate," won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; of heart disease; in Orangeburg, S.C.

Died. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, 83, Pennsylvania-born Lutheran minister who founded the Moral Re-Armament movement; of a heart attack; in Freudenstadt, West Germany (see RELIGION).

Died. Joseph Ernest Cardinal Van Roey, 87, Primate of Belgium since 1926 and the third prince of the church (after Cardinals Tardini and Canali) to die within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists.

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