Married. Anne Kaufman, 22, daughter of Playwright George (The Man Who Came to Dinner) Kaufman; and Bruce D. Colen, 23, manuscript reader for Publishers Simon & Schuster; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bucks County, Pa.

Died. Louise Homer, 76, onetime (1898-1932) contralto in the Metropolitan's Golden Era of Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Scotti, Tetrazzini; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Daughter of a Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted her to wear tights.

Died. John Alden Loring, 76, explorer and naturalist who as a representative of the Smithsonian Institution tramped around East Africa with Teddy Roosevelt, wrote a book about it (Through Africa With Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Owego, N.Y.

Died. Frederic William Goudy, 82, dean of U.S. type designers; of coronary thrombosis; in Marlboro, N.Y. A penniless bookkeeper until he was 33, Goudy turned to his rare craft with the conviction that printed words should aid, not distract, the reader. Of his hundred-odd simple, honest designs for printing type, six are now classic, one (Kennerly) is considered by some experts the most beautiful since the work of 18th Century Master William Caslon.

Died. Jeff D. Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor."

Died. Harry Gordon Selfridge, 90, Wisconsin-born merchant prince who built London's largest department store; of pneumonia; in London. Retiring at 46 after piling up a fortune with Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., Selfridge took a trip to London, was shocked by staid British selling methods, opened the store on Oxford Street that grew rich and famous through high-pressure advertising.*

* He was the first London merchant to buy U.S. style full-page newspaper ads and to boast of such unique department-store services as wart removal, pipe cleaning, coal delivery, cricket-bat oiling, wig making, expert umbrella rolling.

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