Married. Maria Jeritza, 60, full-fashioned, bubbly opera star of the '20s; and Irving Peter Seery, 57, Newark umbrella-maker and opera-lover; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan.
Married. Roland Young, 60, tweedy, henpecked satyr of prewar cinema (Topper, The Young in Heart); and Dorothy Patience May, 40, British divorcee; each for the second time; in Jersey City.
Divorced. By Frances Dodge Johnson, 33, multimillionheiress (Dodge autos) horsewoman (owner of Hoot Mon, 1947 Hambletonian winner): James Benjamin Johnson Jr., 42, her stable manager; after nearly ten years of marriage, one child; in Pontiac, Mich.
Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage: 78%.
Died. Perry Titus Wells Hale, 69, All-America fullback at Yale in 1900; of a heart ailment; in Portland, Conn. Blinded by an explosion in 1913, he learned to read Braille, became a successful inventor and insurance man.
Died. George Lyndon Carpenter, 75, retired international General of the Salvation Army (1939-46); after an operation; in Sydney, Australia. He joined the Army at 19, rose through the ranks, served autocratic General Bramwell Booth as Literary Secretary for twelve years, until Booth demoted him in 1927 for being too candid in his advice. He became a Territorial Commissioner in 1933, succeeded Bramwell's famed sister, Evangeline, as General six years later.
Died. Thomas Sovereign Gates, 75, onetime Morgan partner, longtime (1930-44) president of the University of Pennsylvania, and chairman of its board of trustees since 1944; in Osterville, Mass. A wealthy Philadelphian, he gave up banking to run his alma mater, without pay, for the sake of "romance and high adventure."
Died. Robert Lee Williams, 79, Oklahoma's first chief justice (1907-09), third governor (1915-19), longtime U.S. judge (1919-37); of diabetes and a heart ailment; in Sherman, Tex. "Fighting Bob," a rough-&-tumble courtroom battler, helped draft Oklahoma's constitution (1906-07), then dominated its legal scene until his retirement at 70.