Birthday. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, Hyde Park matriarch who once wrote a book titled My Boy Franklin; her 86th.

Married. Barbara Gushing, 23, dark, slender, beauteous daughter of the late great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of young Mrs. James Roosevelt; and Harvardman Stanley Graf ton Mortimer Jr., 27; in East Hampton, L. I.

Married. David Niven, Scottish-born cinemactor and soldier of fortune now serving in a London Rifle brigade; and Primula Rollo, daughter of an R. A. F. officer; in Huish, England.

Married. Bennett A. ("Beans") Cerf, 42, shrewd, big-boyish Manhattan publisher (Random House-Modern Library); and onetime Cinemactress Phyllis Eraser, 25; in New York City; she for the first time, he for the second. In 1936 Publisher Cerf was divorced by Cinemactress Sylvia Sidney.

Seeking Divorce. John Barrymore, 58, unpredictable, four-times-married madcapper who three weeks ago dipped his famed profile in Hollywood concrete (TIME, Sept. 16); from Elaine Barrie, 25, who before their marriage changed her name from Jacobs to sound more like Barrymore; for causing him "grievous mental suffering and great bodily injury"; in Los Angeles.

Died. Jessica ("Jessie") Reed, 43, five-times-married Ziegfeld showgirl and once one of the highest-paid chorines in the world; of pneumonia and anemia; as a charity patient in Chicago's Osteopathic Hospital. Same day her daughter Ann Carroll de Brow won a Texas beauty contest.

Death Revealed. Richard Edgar Christian, 52, ex-Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island (pop. 200) and direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, who founded the island colony in 1790 after leading a mutiny against Captain William Bligh aboard H. M. S. Bounty; on Pitcairn Island, June 21.

Died. William Anthony McGuire, 53, prolific, publicity-shy Broadway playwright (Six Cylinder Love, Twelve Miles Out), scriptwriter for the late Florenz Ziegfeld (Rosalie, Smiles, Whoopee), cinemauthor (The Great Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell, many an Eddie Cantor musicomedy) ; of a stroke; in Beverly Hills.

Died. Caro Lloyd Strobell, 81, who with two younger friends (69 and 71) recently took title to the Communist Daily Worker (TIME, Aug. 12) to preserve it "as a medium of free expression in the interest of the working people of America"; in Little Compton, R. I. Comrade Earl Browder called her: "an outstanding example of the best American character."

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