Divorced. By Ruth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 29, favorite niece of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick, heiress apparent to his press properties and editor for the past year of the Washington Times-Herald: (Maxwell) Peter Miller Jr., 31, the Times-Herald's former treasurer; after nine years of marriage, two children; in Ottawa, Ill.

Died. Max Werner (real name: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Schifrin), 49, Russian-born military commentator* (Military Strength of the Powers, 1939; Attack Can Win in 1943); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Werner fled successively from the Ukraine to Germany to France to the U.S. (in 1940), wrote a dogmatic column that ran in some 90 U.S. newspapers, ranging from New York's leftist Compass to the Kansas City Star.

Died. Ronald True, 59, British playboy-killer, whose reprieve from the gallows in 1922 was a public and Parliament "scandal" that almost unseated David Lloyd George's coalition government; of a coronary thrombosis; in Broadmoor, England. Wealthy Psychopath True strangled and bludgeoned a prostitute to death, but was finally declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. There, under the rule that patients may furnish their cells as they please, he lived for 28 years with Persian rugs, oak bookshelves, his own valet.

Died. Sinclair Lewis, 65, novelist; first U.S. author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; of a heart ailment; in Rome (see p. 36).

Died. Lady Beerbohm (Florence Kahn), 74, Memphis-born wife of famed British Critic-Caricaturist-Novelist Sir Max ("the incomparable") Beerbohm, and a well-known Broadway actress before her marriage; in their villa at Rapallo, Italy.

Died. Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, 79, since 1948 dean of the College of Cardinals ; of a cerebral thrombosis ; in Rome. A native Roman and boyhood friend of Pope Pius XII, he was secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (which decreed last week that priests might no longer be members of Rotary Clubs or attend meetings see RELIGION); as vicar general of Rome for the past 20 years, he did his best to keep the local priests away from theaters and sporting matches.

Died. Olga Nethersole, 80, British stage star of the turn of the century; in Bournemouth, England. Noted for her siren roles ("the Nethersole kiss"), she was hauled off to a Manhattan court in 1900 (but cleared) for her then shocking Sapho.

* Not to be confused with Columnist Max Lerner.

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