Married. Douglas Langston Rogers, 23, youngest of Secretary of State William Rogers' three sons, a student at Yale Law School; and Nancy Ann Hardin, 21, youngest of Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin's three daughters; in a Presbyterian ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Died. Thelma, Lady Furness, 65, one of the "Magical Morgans," who with her identical twin Gloria captivated international society of the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Though no kin to the banking Morgans, they might just as well have been. Blessed with beauty and brains, Gloria became Gloria Vanderbilt, while Thelma married British Shipping Magnate Lord Furness. In 1934 she captured the heart of young Edward, Prince of Wales, whom she later introduced to a friend named Wallis Simpson with the remark: "Well, dear, look after him for me while I'm away and see that he doesn't get into mischief."

Died. Basil Liddell Hart, 74, eminent British military writer whose radical theory of tank warfare was adopted by the Germans in their blitzkrieg through France; of a stroke; in Medmenham, England. A World War I veteran, Liddell Hart predicted that armor would be the key to conflicts of the future, and in the period between wars fought vainly to have his "expanding torrent" method of attack adopted by the British army. History, of course, proved him correct; according to Rommel, the British would have avoided most of their early defeats in World War II had they listened to Liddell Hart.

Died. Mary Caresse Crosby, 77, literary godmother to the "lost generation" of expatriate writers in Paris; of pneumonia; in Rome. A wealthy Manhattan socialite, Mrs. Crosby founded the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927 and first published such avant-garde works as Hart Crane's The Bridge, Joyce's Work in Progress and Hemingway's Torrents of Spring; she was also a patron of Ezra Pound and introduced Dorothy Parker, Kay Boyle and William Faulkner to European readers.

Died. Edward ("Senator") Ford, 82, dour-visaged vaudeville comedian who wisecracked his way to fame on radio's Can You Top This show in the '40s; of cancer; in Greenport, N.Y. In 1940 Ford teamed with Comedians Harry Hershfield and Joe Laurie Jr. to challenge radio audiences to a game of comic oneupmanship; at its peak the show attracted 10,000 jokes a week from a regular audience of 10 million listeners. Typical Ford rib-tickler: "Professor to student: 'Give me a definition of syntax.' Student to professor: 'My God, have they got a tax on that too?' "

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