Married. Erie Galbraithe Jolson, 27, fourth and last wife of the late Al Jolson, who left her $1,000,000; and Norman Krasna, 42, Hollywood producer; both for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Clifford Odets, 45, Broadway playwright (Awake and Sing!, Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy) and Hollywood scripter (None But the Lonely Heart); by Bette Grayson Odets, 32, his second wife (his first: Actress Luise Rainer); after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno.

Died. J. Edward Bromberg, 46, veteran character actor, who was brought to the U.S. from Hungary at the age of two, worked as a silk salesman before getting a start in the Provincetown Theatre, appeared in numerous plays written by his friend, Clifford Odets (see above), got good notices from the critics for his parts in Men in White and The Royal Family, bad notices from the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to say whether he was or was not a Communist; of a heart ailment; in London, where he was playing an undertaker in The Biggest Thief in Town.

Died. Harold Wallace Ross, 59, founder (1925) and editor of The New Yorker; after an operation for cancer of the lung; in Boston (see PRESS).

Died. Joseph ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson, 63, one of baseball's greatest hitters (a lifetime average of .356 in 1,330 games), who was kicked out of organized baseball after he and seven Chicago White Sox teammates admitted they took bribes to throw the 1919 Series to the Cincinnati Reds; of a heart attack; in hometown Greenville, S.C. His part in the "Black Sox" scandal was complicated by the facts that he 1) was almost illiterate, 2) batted .375 in the series, 3) probably never received the $20,000 promised, 4) later repudiated his confession. In later years, from his liquor store in Greenville, he periodically protested that he was innocent, never convinced baseball's bigwigs.

Died. Leon Rothier, 76, French-born, grand-mannered basso at the Metropolitan Opera (1910-39), who sang a record-breaking 1,687 performances in 75 roles, was best known for his Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. After retiring at 68, he gave voice lessons, ran a radio program, brought the house down at a soth anniversary concert in 1949, admitted: "My voice is still very good, you know, but it can't compare with the golden voice I once had."

Died. Algernon Blackwood, 82, leading British practitioner of horror fiction (Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural --TIME, Feb. 12; The Doll and One Other) in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe; after long illness; in London.

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