Married. Mary Olivia ("Minnie") Gushing, 24, former Girl Friday to Manhattan Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta and daughter of Newport Socialite Howard G. Gushing; and Peter Hill Beard, 29, a photographer-writer specializing in African conservation (The End of the Game) and great-grandson of Railroad Baron James J. Hill, whom she met last year when she hurried to Kenya to care for her father, taken ill on safari; in an Episcopal ceremony followed by a reception for 400 guests; in Newport, R.I.

Married. Vince Edwards, 39, TV's Ben Casey for five years, currently trying it as a nightclub balladeer and Hollywood actor (Too Late Blues); and Linda Ann Foster, 23, TV starlet (Hank); he for the second time; in the Beverly Hills home of Dean Martin, who introduced them at a dinner party last year.

Married. Anthony Bliss, 54, Manhattan attorney and longtime (1956-67) president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, which handles everything except the opera's artistic affairs; and Sally Brayley, 29, soloist in the Met's ballet troupe until last December; he for the third time, she for the second; in her home town, Prince's Lodge, Nova Scotia, on July 24, one month after he was divorced by onetime Actress (My Sister Eileen) Jo Ann Savers, 48, his wife of 26 years.

Died. Matthew R. Goodman, 20, Cornell University senior and only son of Author Paul Goodman, social philosopher (Growing Up Absurd, Compulsory Mis-Education) and unofficial saint of New Left campus movements; of injuries when he fell from a ledge on New Hampshire's North Percy Peak while on a climbing expedition.

Died. Floyd G. Hoard, 40, solicitor general of northeast Georgia's Piedmont Circuit, a gang-busting state prosecutor elected in 1964 who personally led police on innumerable raids against gambling racketeers, auto thieves and bootleggers, all of whom flourish in his rural district; of injuries from at least six sticks of dynamite wired to his car's ignition; in Jefferson, Ga.

Died. Frank Callan Norris, 60, magazine editor and novelist, a Tennessee Irishman who signed on as a writer for TIME in 1929, was co-managing editor from 1937 to 1941 (he coined the term World War II) before becoming managing editor of the March of Time from 1941 to 1946, then joined Newsweek as a senior editor and six years later retired to write fiction, producing three novels, including Tower in the West, a parable of brotherly love, which won the 1957 Harper novel prize; of a stroke; in Siasconset, Mass.

Died. William Philip Spratling, 66, reviver of Mexico's Taxco silver crafts, a New York-born architect-artist who came across the impoverished, pre-Columbian silver-mining town 70 miles southwest of Mexico City in 1933, stayed on to learn the metalcraft from the few Indian artisans remaining, soon opened his own shop, and spent the rest of his life building the village into a major tourist attraction and its silver-smithies into a business employing 2,950 people; of injuries when his car crashed into an embankment; near Taxco.

Died. Hans Anton Kroll, 69, West German Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1962, a feisty career diplomat who in 1950 was chosen by Konrad Adenauer to head an East European trade ministry, got along so well with the Communists that he was posted to Moscow, where his ardent campaign for Russo-German friendship grew so distasteful to Germany's Western allies that der Alte finally recalled him; of a heart attack; in Starnberg, West Germany.

Died. Josh Bryan Lee, 75, Oklahoma Democratic Representative (1934-'36) and Senator ('36-'42), chiefly remembered as the state's most skillful spellbinder, with the single exception of Will Rogers, whose eulogy ("His humor . . . never bit like a wolf, but always like a lamb") he delivered at Rogers' funeral in 1935 and on the House floor; after a long illness; in Norman, Okla.

Died. Willard Monroe Kiplinger, 76, pioneer in the newsletter business, a onetime Associated Press Washington bureau reporter who in 1923 borrowed $1,000 to start a mimeographed financial and Government tip sheet for businessmen, gradually built his weekly Washington Letter to a circulation of 250,000, and added four specialized letters (tax, agriculture, Florida, California --combined circ. 50,000), along with a monthly Changing Times magazine (circ. 1,000,000), all serving up more-or-less inside dope written in the skeletal style of telegram English; of heart disease; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Vittorio Valletta, 84, managing director from 1928 to 1966 of Italy's Fiat, world's fourth-ranking automaker and the country's second biggest private industry, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) onetime math professor who signed on in 1921 to help Founder Giovanni Agnelli consolidate World War I growth, deftly steered the company through depression, dictatorship and World War II, then, with organizational genius and Marshall Plan cash, embarked on a vast expansion and diversification program that resulted in $1.66 billion in sales last year at his retirement; of a stroke; in Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy.

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