Married. Refugee Writer Jean Bekessy, 31 ("Hans Habe"--A Thousand Shall Fall); and Eleanor Close Sturges Gautier Rand, 31, cereal heiress (Post Toasties), daughter of Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, wife of the ex-Ambassador to Russia and Belgium; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Manhattan. Her first husband was Cinedirector Preston Sturges.

Married. Thomas Terry ("Tom") Connally, 64, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Lucile Sanderson Sheppard, 51, widow of Morris Sheppard, late dry Senator from Texas; in New Orleans. Senator Connally had been a widower six years; Senator Sheppard died in April 1941.

Died. Charles Henry, 58, better known as Jack Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis; of heart disease; in Chicago. Once one of the greatest defensive fighters in ring history, he lost only two out of 92 recorded fights. (His luck in fights outside the ring earned him the title of "the animated razor scar.") He took Joe Louis in hand when Louis was a ring newcomer, coached him through 20 of his 21 title defenses.

Died. Louise Harrington Leahy, 66, wife of Admiral William D. Leahy, U.S. Ambassador to Vichy; of embolism following an operation; in Vichy.

Died. Ian Pirie ("Photographer of Men") MacDonald, 75; of cerebral hemorrhage ; in Manhattan. Probably the most famed photographer of the male in the U.S., he had refused to take a woman's picture for more than 40 years, once explained: "Men who make pictures of women make emasculated pictures of men."

Buried. The late "Judge" Joseph Frederick Rutherford (Jehovah's Witnesses); in Rossville, N.Y.; nearly four months after his death. His followers had lost a fight for permission to bury him in his San Diego orange grove instead of a cemetery.

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