Married. Erskine Caldwell, 53, novelist of Georgia's poor whites (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), and Virginia Moffett Fletcher, 37; he for the fourth time (his second: Photographer Margaret Bourke-White), she for the second; in Reno.
Died. Avraamy Pavlovich Zavenyagin, 55, billiard-bald chief (since 1955) of Russia's euphemistically titled Ministry of Medium Machine Building (i.e., atomic-energy commission ), wartime overseer of much of the slave-labor force; of a coronary thrombosis; in Moscow.
Died. Major General Robert Alexis McClure, 59, U.S. Army (ret.), who organized SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Branch in 1944, shelled and bombed Germans with 3.5 billion pamphlets, broadcast front-line surrender appeals from loudspeaker-equipped...
