Monday, Jun. 26, 1950

Married. Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe, 18, daughter of Cinemactress Mary (Dodsworth) Astor and second husband Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, whose 1936 courtroom squabble over her custody became a sexy tabloid sensation; and Frank John Roh Jr., 27, University of Southern California graduate student (drama); in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Married. James Branch Cabell, 71, 50-book Virginia author, whose refined preciosity, elaborately tortured allegory and subtly understated bawdry made his novels (Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, Smirt, Smith, Smire, etc.) critical and popular favorites in the '20s and '30s; and Margaret Waller Freeman, 56, Manhattan interior decorator; he for the second time; in Richmond.

Died. Harold E. Mitchell, 48, G.O.P. national committeeman, party head in Connecticut; of a heart attack; in West Hartford, Conn. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Dr. William Freeman Snow, 75, prime mover since its founding in 1914 of the syphilis-fighting American Social Hygiene Association, onetime (1927-34) president of the National Health Council; in Bangor, Me.

Died. The Rev. Brother Paul (Peter E. Scanlan), 85, onetime (1928-37) superior-general of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier; in Fort Monroe, Va. As superintendent of St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore, Brother Paul encouraged the star of the school's baseball team, a promising lefthanded pitcher named George Herman Ruth.

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