Married. Eleanore Whitney, 21, pretty stage-&-screen tap dancer; and Frederick Backer, 29, former Assistant U. S. Attorney; in Manhattan.
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 35, once-divorced novelist and short story writer (Tobacco Road); and Margaret Bourke-White, 31, once-divorced artist-photographer; in Silver City, Nev. Last November she declared: "I will not marry him no matter how many reporters want me to."
Married. Carl Van Doren, 53, bang-haired literary critic, author (Benjamin Franklin); and Jean Wright Gorman, 38-year-old Manhattanite; both for the second time; in San Francisco.
Died. Hirosi Saito, 52, onetime (1934-38) Japanese Ambassador to the U....