Married. Erie Cocke Jr., 34, past (1950-51) national commander of the American Legion, currently assistant to the president of Delta Air Lines; and Madelyn Grotnes, 31, former (until three months before her wedding) private secretary to Senator Joe McCarthy; in Chicago.

Married. Borrah Minevitch, 52, popular harmonica player of the 1930s and leader of a harmonica band ("Harmonica Rascals"), turned Paris restaurateur; and Lucille Watson-Little, 30, former costume designer for the Ringling Bros. Circus; both for the second time (her marriage to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor was annulled); in Mereville, France.

Died. Bill Vukovich, 36, two-time winner (1953 and 1954) of the Memorial Day Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race; in a five-car pile-up as he led the pack on the 57th lap (see SPORT).

Died. Louis ("Little New York'') Campagna, 54, retired Capone gang gunman, extortionist and gambling boss; of a heart attack suffered while playing a 30-lb. fish on a pleasure cruiser at sea; in Miami. A graduate of New York's "Five Points" gang, Campagna followed Capone to Chicago as his bodyguard, later, after Capone went to prison for income-tax evasion, shared control of his vice and gambling syndicate with Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti. Sentenced to ten years in prison in a $1,000,000 movie extortion case in 1943, he was paroled after serving 3 1/2 years, retired to his 800 closely guarded acres near Fowler, Ind. to live the life of a gentleman farmer. Many of his old pals, including Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, turned up at his wake in suburban Berwyn, Ill., to which the elite of the Chicago underworld were invited.

Died. R. W. ("Dick") Burnett, 57, millionaire oilman, sole owner of the Dallas Eagles of the Texas League (for which he paid a record $500,000 in 1949), named Minor League Executive of the Year in 1953 for his partially successful fight to give the minor leagues a larger voice in making baseball rules; of a heart ailment; in Shreveport, La.

Died. Daniel George van Beuningen, 78, retired Dutch businessman, famed as the owner of one of the great private art collections of Europe; of an embolism; in Arlesheim, Switzerland. To prove that the Last Supper in his collection was a genuine Vermeer, Van Beuningen brought suit in 1952 against famed Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans, who claimed that the picture was actually one of the fakes that Dutch Art Forger Hans van Meegeren started unloading on the European art market in the late 1930s. Van Beuningen died two days before the oft-postponed suit was to come to trial in Brussels.

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