Married. Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke), 26, eye-catching Hungarian-born movie siren (The Assassin); and Curd Juergens, 39, balding Austrian cinemactor; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Schliersee, Germany.

Divorced. Gypsy Rose Lee (real name: Rose Louise Hovic), 41, longtime champion of the nearly bare facts; from Julio de Diego, 55, Spanish-born painter; after seven years of marriage, three of separation; in Reno.

Died. John Emil Peurifoy, 48, troubleshooting U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, and his younger son, Daniel Byrd, 9 (his older boy, Clinton, was badly hurt); in a road collision with a truck; near Hua Hin, Thailand (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Major General Merritt Austin ("Red Mike") Edson, 58, U.S.M.C. (ret.), topflight Marine Corps rifleman, naval aviator, veteran of round-the-world service ashore and afloat, winner of the Medal of Honor for his defense of Henderson Airfield (1942) on Guadalcanal while colonel in command of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion; of carbon monoxide poisoning; in Washington, D.C.

Died. James Batcheller Sumner, 67, winner of a 1946 Nobel Prize in chemistry for having crystallized an enzyme, longtime professor of biochemistry at Cornell University (TIME, June 27); of cancer; in Buffalo. Sumner started his work on enzymes (proteins that stimulate activity within the body) in 1917. Told while a student at Harvard Medical School that he would fail as a chemist because of the loss of his left arm (in a boyhood hunting accident), he went ahead to isolate urease in 1926, and to become an excellent skier and tennis player.

Died. Florence Easton, 70, English-born dramatic soprano, longtime Metropolitan Opera star (1916-29) and concert singer famed for her musicianship and repertory (about 150 roles in four languages), singer of the leading female role of Rachel in La Juive in Caruso's last performance at the Metropolitan; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Izaak Walton Killam, 70, publicity-shy Montreal financier believed to have been the richest man in Canada, longtime president of the Royal Securities Corp., onetime publisher of the Toronto Mail and Empire; of a heart attack; in Cascapedia, Que.

Died. Thomas Mann, 80, German-born novelist (Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain), essayist and short-story writer, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Baron Horder, 84, renowned diagnostician, heart and cancer specialist, physician to British monarchs since Edward VII; of coronary thrombosis; in Petersfield, England.

Died. Walter D. Bellingrath, 86, businessman, philanthropist, creator of Mobile, Alabama's Bellingrath Gardens (rare azaleas), longtime president of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Mobile, a founder of the Waterman Steamship Corp.; in Mobile.

Died. Robert Williams Wood, 87, longtime professor of experimental physics at Johns Hopkins, consultant on the Manhattan atom-bomb project, pioneer in ultraviolet ray photography and the study of infra-red light; in Amityville, N.Y.

Died. Frank A. Seiberling, 95, inventor-industrialist, retired board chairman of Seiberling Rubber Co., founder, in 1898, of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.; in Akron. Known as the "Little Napoleon (5 ft. 3 in.) of the rubber business," Seiberling twice built fortunes from scratch, founded Goodyear with $3,500 of borrowed cash, built it into the world's biggest producer, lost control in 1921 to a combine. At 62, he started the Seiberling Rubber Co., built it into a $7,000,000 company, retired at 90.

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