Married. Ensign Wayne Morris, 28, ex-cinemactor; and Patricia Ann O'Rourke, 19, of Beverly Hills; he for the second time; in Hollywood. His first wife was Tobacco Heiress Leonora ("Bubbles") Schinasi.

Married. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 37; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 33; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Handsome, enthusiastic Jock Whitney, heir to a $27,000,000 trust fund, has been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported $3,000,000 alimony. Blonde Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, daughter of late famed Surgeon Harvey W. Gushing, also was married in 1930, also got her divorce from Captain Jimmy Roosevelt in 1940.

Among the 30 guests at last week's small but celebrity-dotted wedding: democratic Jock Whitney's chauffeur and valet, Betsey Roosevelt's two children (Sara Delano and Kate Roosevelt), secret service men who keep constant guard over the President's grandchildren.

Married. Kent Cooper, 61, general manager of the Associated Press; and Sarah A. Gibbs, 40, his onetime secretary; he for the third time; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Billing, 47, compiler of The Red Network ; by Albert Wallwick Billing, 50, consulting engineer; three days after she sued him; in Chicago. Billing charged his wife with intoxication, profanity, said her Red-harrying ruined his business. Mrs. Billing charged adultery, cruelty.

Sued for Divorce. By Cinemactress Rita Hay worth (real name: Margarita Carmen Cansino), 23: Oilman Edward C. Judson, 42; in Hollywood.

Divorced. James Waterman Wise, writer son of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; by Elizabeth Kraus Wise, his second wife; in Reno.

Died. Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, 68, head of the Vanderbilt clan, great-grandson of Founder "Commodore" Cornelius; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard the yacht Ambassadress; in the City Basin at Miami. Reserved, plodding, famed for his Vandyke beard and his yachts,* he was an inventor (30 devices for improving freight cars and locomotives), a soldier (Mexican border and World War I), financier (banks, railroads, traction companies). A graduate of Yale, where he was a slow but steady student, he started tinkering early in the shops of the Vanderbilt-controlled New York Central, made a point of visiting them periodically almost to the end of his life. When he married Grace Wilson, a wealthy cotton merchant's daughter, over his father's objection, he was cut off with a small inheritance. Brother Alfred Gwynne gave him $6,000,000 to equalize his share.

In their great Fifth Avenue mansion in Manhattan and at Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach).

Died. Martha McChesney Berry, 75, "the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot," founder and developer of the famed Berry Schools for poor mountain children; in Atlanta. As the young daughter of a wealthy north Georgia cotton planter, she read stories to poor-folk neighbors, built (and taught in) first one log-cabin school, then another, next established a boarding school (now more than 1,000 students). She was one of the first modern educators to recognize the need for teaching crafts, one of the first to set up a work-and-study plan, saw her ideas widely copied in the U.S.

Died. Tommaso Pio Cardinal Boggiani, 79; in Rome. Made Bishop of Adria in 1908, he was instructed to transfer the seat of the diocese from Adria to Rovigo, was stoned as he carried out his orders. Made Papal Nuncio to Mexico in 1912, he was recalled in 1914, in the midst of the revolution. He became a Cardinal in 1916.

* Most celebrated: the Winchester, nicknamed "The Cigarette" because of its narrow beam.

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