Married. Beverley Bigelow Byrd, 21, daughter of Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., a sales assistant for a brokerage firm; and U.S. Army Lieut. George Partridge Greenhalgh, 23, whom she has known since childhood; in an Episcopal ceremony in Winchester, Va.

Died. Hector Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military occupation. Though received with suspicion by both the right and the left, he proved an able conciliator and for ten months kept the country together until it was possible to hold free elections.

Died. Herb Shriner, 51, low-key comic, whose homespun, Will Rogers-like style entertained a generation of Americans; with his wife Eileen when their car left the road and hit a tree while they were returning from a nightclub date; in Delray Beach, Fla. Shriner broke into vaudeville in the '30s with a routine that combined the harmonica and wry, sly jokes about life back home in Indiana. ("I came from a small town. Well, I'll give you an idea of the size of it. It was between the first and second signs of a Burma Shave poem.") His gags--if not his harmonica--caught on, and before long he was a radio star; his biggest years on TV were the mid-'50s (Herb Shriner Time, 1951-52, and Two for the Money, 1952-56). Later his popularity dwindled, but he never lacked an audience for his country-boy-in-the-city humor.

Died. Stanley Benham, 56, U.S. bobsledder who won world renown in one of the swiftest and most dangerous of winter sports; of a heart attack; in Miami. Benham represented the U.S. in international competition for 13 years, winning world championships in a four-man sled in 1949 and 1950, and silver medals for the two-and four-man events at the 1952 Olympics.

Died. Thomas Butler, 57, the Scotland Yard detective who caught the "Great Train Robbers"; of lung cancer; in London. It took five years of tracking down clues from Britain to Morocco to South America before the Yard's "Gray Fox" finally nabbed the last of the 15 thieves who in August 1963 made off with more than $7,000,000 from a Glasgow-to-London mail train. Closing that case was the capstone of a 34-year career in which Butler, according to admiring colleagues, combined the intellect of Sherlock Holmes with the persistence of Inspector Maigret.

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