Married. Anne Moen Bullitt, 19, only child of Philadelphia's former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France William Christian Bullitt; and Army Staff Sergeant Caspar Wistar Barton Townsend, 23, of Philadelphia, a 1942 Yale graduate; in a surprise ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Md. In October 1943 her father announced her engagement to Marine Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr. of Brooklandville, Md. Mr. Bullitt's comment on the marriage: "What?"

Death Revealed. John Thomas Looney, 74, British Shakespearian scholar; early this month; in Swadlincote, England. The Looney theory that Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, has been backed by a U.S. research group.

Died. Arthur Henry Kudner, 53, able Manhattan advertising executive; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles, Calif. He was president of his own firm (eighth largest in point of billing), which he started in 1935 when he resigned from the presidency of Erwin Wasey & Co., taking six big accounts with him (including General Motors and Goodyear). Sloganeer Kudner conceived "Better Buy Buick," "Eyes to the Future, Ears to the Ground" and "Victory Is Our Business" (G.M.'s prewar and wartime mottoes) and "athlete's foot." On his office wall was a framed quotation of the 1936 world's champion hog caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice. You've got to convince the hogs you have something for them."

Died. Charles Eugene Bedaux, 56, wily industrial engineer; of a self-administered overdose of sleeping powders; in Miami, Fla. Dark, affable, French-born Bedaux came to the U.S. in 1906 as a laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done, but which was widely denounced as exploitation. Rich from his Plan, Bedaux bought a 14th-century French chateau where his friend the Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. On that occasion Bedaux openly admitted: "I am an out-&-out Fascist." In 1937 he planned a U.S. tour for the Duke and Duchess, was stymied by labor leaders' "Baltimore Resolution." In North Africa since 1942, ostensibly to build a trans-Sahara pipeline for edible oil, Bedaux was nabbed there recently on a charge of trading with the enemy, brought to the U.S. by air, faced the possibility of a treason trial. Manhattan's Bedaux Co., Inc., pulled a quick name-change on learning of Bedaux's suicide, asserted he had not been connected with them since 1937.

Died. Miller Reese Hutchison, 67, audio inventor (Dictograph, Klaxon horn, Acousticon for the deaf); of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Mark Twain was said to have observed that Hutchison invented the Klaxon horn to deafen people so they would have to buy Acousticons.

Died. Yandell Henderson, 70, professor emeritus of physiology at Yale; of an intestinal ailment; in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Henderson was instrumental in the repeal of the 18th Amendment, told Congress in 1932 that it was impossible to get drunk on 4% beer.

Died. Benjamin Crawford ("Ben") Riley, 73, famed restaurateur; of suffocation, in a fire at his Yonkers, N.Y. Arrowhead Inn. Riley opened his first Arrowhead Inn in 1897 at Saratoga (where his innkeeping great-great-grandfather had been given a grant by George III), reportedly introduced frogs' legs to the U.S., numbered among his friends "Diamond Jim" Brady.

Died. John Macrae, 77, since 1923 president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (publishers); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities.

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