Married. Dustin Hoffman, 31, the compellingly insecure antihero of The Graduate (TIME cover, Feb. 7); and Anne Byrne, 25, his frequent companion for three years (she for the second time); in a Reform Jewish ceremony attended by family and close friends; in Chappaqua, N.Y.

Died. Sir Osbert Sitwell, 76, fifth baronet, illustrious man of British letters, who with his equally famed sister, Dame Edith, and brother Sacheverell, devoted a lifetime to baiting the established ideas and figures of his age while celebrating the splendor of the past; of a heart at tack; in Montagnana, Italy. "I belonged," he once wrote, "to the prewar era, a proud citizen of the great free world of 1914, in which comity prevailed." Not for him the modern age, in which "the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are our paragons, and the butterfly is condemned for its wings, which are uneconomic." In his brilliantly styled poems, essays, novels (Before the Bombardment, 1926; The Man Who Lost Himself, 1929; Miracle on Sinai, 1933) and his monumental five-volume autobiography (Left Hand, Right Hand!), he re-created in all its opulence the belle epoque in which he spiritually lived, yet, ironically displayed whimsical delight in shattering the social and cultural shibboleths of his peers. He described himself in Who's Who as one who "has conducted a series of skirmishes and hand-to-hand battles against the Philistine. Though outnumbered, has occasionally succeeded in denting the line, though not without damage to himself."

Died. Eddie Cicotte, 84, oldtime Chicago pitching ace and central figure in the 1919 World Series scandal that marked baseball's darkest hour; of cancer; in Detroit. In that tainted series, the American League's Chicago White Sox were heavy favorites over the National League's Cincinnati Reds, and Cicotte, with a 29-7 season's record, was a good bet to win at least two games. But gamblers offered Eddie and seven of his teammates several thousand dollars to throw the sport's most vaunted prize. "Black Sox," screamed the fans. "I did it for the wife and kiddies," Eddie pleaded, but baseball's tough new commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned all eight players from baseball for life.

Died. Chief White Cloud, 102, last of a proud lineage of chieftains that once dominated the fabled American West, and friend of Sitting Bull, leader of the Creek Nation, whose oil-rich Oklahoma lands were taken over by the U.S. Government in 1907, after which the tribe scattered and he became a spiritualist minister and patent medicine salesman; of a stroke; in Canton, Ohio.

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