Married. Wilma Baard, 23, blonde model and bargemaster's daughter who achieved fame two years ago when 14 Manhattan café cowboys sponsored her "debut" in protest at the Brenda Frazier hoopla; and Count Nava del Tajo, 25, distant relative of the Duke of Alba; in Manhattan.
Seeking Divorce. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 35; from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, multi-millionaire horseman and Pan American Airways board chairman; after ten years' marriage; in Hobe Sound. Fla.
Seeking Divorce. Morton Downey, 39, rotund radio tenor; from Barbara Bennett Downey, 34, second of the cinemadoll Bennett sisters; after twelve years' marriage; charging cruelty; in Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Downey, while declining to contest the suit, intended to fight if necessary for custody of their five children.
Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 46, banker-sportsman member of the Wilmington Du Ponts; from Jean Austin du Pont, his wife for 22 years; for cruelty; in Reno. Brushing aside questions about whether he meant to marry Tennist Alice Marble, Banker du Pont rushed to pack his bags, fly to see his Fairy Chant lose the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap.
Died. William Read Randolph, 20, tall, blond sophomore at St. Mary's University (Texas), son of the late Captain William M. Randolph for whom U. S. Army Randolph Field was named; of injuries received when the plane he was piloting on a St. Mary's Flying Club breakfast flight crashed in heavy mist at Boerne, Tex.
Died. Second Lieut. Charles Standish Vereker, 29, only son and heir of Viscount Gort (former Commander of the British Field Force), one of the last officers to evacuate Dunkirk last June; by his own hand, "while the balance of his mind was disturbed"; in Dorset, England.
Died. Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, 50, expatriate Boston poet and critic, editor since 1915 of the authoritative annual Best Short Stories and, since 1921, of the Best British Short Stories; in Gerrards Cross, Bucks, England.
Died. Ivy Wingo, 50, oldtime major-league baseball star, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds when they defeated the Chicago Black Sox in the famed crooked world series of 1919; in Norcross. Ga.
Died. Walter Edmund O'Hara, fiery, gambling Rhode Island Irishman, onetime managing director of the famed Narragansett Racing Association, who took Governor Robert E. ("Fighting Bob") Quinn's election in 1936 as a personal tribute, later brawled historically with him, bankrupting his Providence newspaper, losing his race track, running unsuccessfully for Governor in 1938; when his Packard piled head on into another car near the Taunton, Mass. dog-racing track.
Died. Allen Ledyard Lindley, 60, longtime Wall Street broker, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange's potent Committee on Business Conduct until June 1937, grandson of cable-laying Cyrus W. Field; after brief illness; in Englewood, N. J.
Died. Harry Whinna Nice, 63, fat, affable, one-eyed Baltimore criminal lawyer who was Maryland's Governor from 1935 to 1939; after a heart attack; in Richmond, Va.
Died. Lady Maud Agnes Bowes-Lyon, 70, sister of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and as such aunt of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after an operation; in Worcestershire, England.