Married. John Phillips Marquand Jr., 31, son of Novelist J. P. Marquand, author under the pseudonym John Phillips (The Second Happiest Day); and Elena Susanna Coward, 24; he for the second time, she for the first; in London.

Died. Wheeler Sammons, 66, scholarly owner, editor and publisher of the standard reference work, Who's Who in America (circ. 35,000); of a heart attack; in Chicago.

Died. Jake ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, 70, Sicilian-born "retired gambler," onetime financial secretary to the late Al Capone; of a heart attack, in his own bed; in Chicago. Low rated as Public Enemy No. 10 in the Chicago Crime Commission's original (1930) most-wanted-crim-inals list, Greasy Thumb rose unheralded from a barroom waiter to greeter in a Capone bordello to financial manager of the boss's varied enterprises. After doing five years (his only prison stretch, 1930-35) for income tax evasion, he bulked large enough in gambling activities to star in 1951 before the Kefauver Senate crime investigating committee.

Died. Edward Augustus Dickson, 76, longtime (1919-31) co-owner and editor of the old Los Angeles Evening Express, who, as chairman of the board of regents of the University of California since 1948, played a major role in expanding the institution's facilities, enabling it to keep pace with its burgeoning enrollment; in Los Angeles.

Died. Edwin Franko Goldman, 78, top U.S. concert bandmaster, composer of more than 100 marches (best known: On the Mall); in New York City. The leading U.S. booster of band music since Sousa, he organized the Goldman Band in 1911, performed open air concerts on the mall in Manhattan's Central Park (and over the radio) from 1922 until last summer.

Died. Sir Travers Humphreys, 88, oldest criminal court judge in Britain at his retirement in 1951, who was one of Oscar Wilde's* defense counsels in his famed trial for perversion in 1895; in London. Wrote Humphreys in 1953 of the Wilde trial: "Reflecting on the events of nearly 60 years ago, one fact is plain beyond argument. The prosecution of Oscar Wilde should never have been brought."

* Wilde was suspected of a homosexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, 21-year-old son of the paranoiac Marquis of Queensberry. By public threats and insults, Queensberry goaded Wilde into charging him with criminal libel. The three-day trial (April 1895) that followed brought out damaging evidence of Wilde's homosexual practices. He dropped his charges against Queensberry, but his reputation was ruined. On May 25, after being tried and convicted of homosexuality, he was sentenced to two years at hard labor, spent the major portion of his term at Reading Gaol.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.