Married. Janet Helen Attlee, 24, daughter of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee; and Harold William Shipton, 26, an electronics engineer; in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England.

Married. Adolf Dehn, 51, satirical, lyrical lithographer and watercolorist; and Virginia Lee Engleman, 25-year-old fledgling artist; he for the second time, she for the first; in Wallingford, Conn.

Married. Donald Marr Nelson, 59, plump, balding wartime WPBoss; and Australian-born Valerie Edna May Rowell, 31, former British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Preston Sturges, 49, ace Hollywood writerdirector; by third wife Louise Sargent Tevis Sturges, 38; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. David Wark Griffith, 73, pioneer producer of the cinema extravaganza (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance); by Evelyn Marjorie Baldwin Griffith, 37, his second; after nearly twelve years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds on it.

Died. Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, 79, author of the everlasting, best-selling The Lodger (1913); in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England. "Mrs. Belloc Lowndes," sister of Author Hilaire Belloc, was a trail blazer and old settler in psychological-crime mysteries, wrote more than 35 novels in 40 years, mostly about nice people with snarled-up psyches.

Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London.

Died. John Bassett Moore, 86, No. 1 U.S. authority on international law, first U.S. member of the World Court (1921-28); after long illness; in Manhattan. Moore, whose eight-volume Digest of International Law is the bible of the field, was no One-Wonder, argued back in 1933 that the "new" internationalism's efforts to guarantee peace merely assured the worldwide scope of future wars.

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