Married. Mary Gushing Astor, 47, eldest of the late Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing's three beautiful, millions-marrying daughters (her sisters' husbands: CBS Board Chairman William Paley, Financier John Hay Whitney); and James Whitney Fosburgh, 43, Yale-educated Manhattan artist and World War II Army glider pilot; he for the first time, she for the second (her previous marriage, to Manhattan Millionheir William Vincent Astor, ended in divorce in September); in Manhasset, N.Y.

Died. Felix S. (for Solomon) Cohen, 46, son of the late Legal Philosopher Morris Cohen and lawyer-champion of the American Indian, who, in a series of state court battles, successfully defended the rights of Indians to vote (1948), to trial under due process of law (1950), to receive Social Security benefits (1953); of cancer; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Fred E. Ahlert, 64, popular songwriter (I'll Get By, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, 75, one of Britain's pioneer airmen, who led the disastrous 1941 defense of Malaya and Singapore against the Japanese in World War II; in Halton, England.

Died. Sir Muirhead Bone, 77, famed British artist, best known for his detailed architectural etchings and watercolors, accurate drawings and sketches of Britain's fighting men in both world wars; of leukemia ; in Oxford, England.

Died. William Levi ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, 79, longtime (1915-52) president-dictator of the powerful A.F.L. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (present membership, 822,000) ; of a heart ailment; in Indianapolis. Starting as a 20-c--an-hour carpenter in Midland, Mich., Big Bill soon became a union business agent, in nine years fought his way to the presidency. A bitter, irascible foe of shop-wide unionism (i.e., the C.I.O.), he once traded punches with Fellow Czar John L. Lewis during a stormy A.F.L. convention, backed every Republican presidential candidate from Coolidge to Eisenhower. Last year, having quadrupled his union's membership, increased its treasury's assets to $15 million, Bill Hutcheson retired and proudly installed his son Maurice as the new boss.

Died. Count Aisuke Kabayama, 88, U.S.-educated organizer of Japan's first international news agency, Kokusai Tsushin (1914), who was arrested by the Japanese police in 1945, two months before his country's surrender, for attempting secret peace negotiations with the Allies; in Tokyo.

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