Married. U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Carl Lewis Estes, 45, peacetime's wealthy, scrappy Texas oilman-newspaper publisher; and WAVE Ensign Margaret Virginia McLeod, 25, his administrative assistant; he for the second time, she for the first; in Philadelphia.

Sued for Divorce. Richard Wesley Woolworth, 45, wealthy, sports-loving nephew of 5-&-10-cent-store founder Frank Winfield Woolworth, son of onetime board chairman Charles Sumner Woolworth; by Margaret Brady Woolworth, mother of his three children, 17, 15 and 8; in Tampa, Fla.

Killed on Duty. Pamela Barton, 26, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force flight officer, onetime U.S. Women's National Amateur golf champion (1936), British Open champion (1936, 1939); in the crash of a Royal Air Force plane; in Kent, England.

Died. Colonel Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 54, until last August General Douglas MacArthur's Executive Intelligence Officer, peacetime yacht-skippering investment banker; three months after a breakdown induced by heavy South Pacific staff work; in Cove Neck, N.Y. Princeton '11, Harvard Law School '14, he won the D.S.C. as a World War I captain (later he was a major) of the 165th Infantry.

Died. Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovitch Romanoff, 66, the late Grand Duke Cyril Romanoff's younger brother; in Paris. He was a grandson of Alexander III, next-to-last Czar, and uncle of Britain's beauteous Duchess of Kent. In 1902, gay Duke Boris amused the U.S. public by drinking champagne out of a Chicago chorus girl's slipper.

Died. Robert Treat Paine II, 81, art-collecting longtime director of General Electric Co. (1894-1934), fifth directly descended, Harvard-graduated Robert Treat Paine since Massachusetts' famed signer of the Declaration of Independence; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, 89, England's richest man, an inconspicuous centimillionaire; in Reigate, England. A tall, soberly tailored flour miller, in his Yorkshire youth he felt a call to the Methodist missions, decided instead to follow Methodist Founder John Wesley's injunction: "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." In his fortunate grain deals he counseled with God. When his World War I profits distressed him--and Premier Lloyd George told him that only an Act of Parliament could take his business out of the black--he turned $15-20,000,000 over to (mostly Methodist) institutions. He refused a peerage, in Who's Who allowed himself three lines.

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