Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick, Ga.
Died. Jean Luchaire, 45, arch-collaborating French journalist who headed the Nazi-controlled Paris press, father of pretty, pouting, collaborating Cinemactress Corinne Luchaire*; before a firing squad, for treason; at Fort de Chatillon, Paris.
Died. Raymond Leslie Buell, 49, author (Isolated America, Poland: Key to Europe], 1933-39 Foreign Policy Association president, research worker for Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign; of a pulmonary embolism after a cranial operation; in Montreal. Long an insistent internationalist, Ray Buell had been a TIME, Inc. foreign-affairs adviser since 1942.
Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand man.
Died. Sir Hugh Allen, 76, Oxford University music professor, former conductor of the famed Oxford Bach Choir,† president of the prestigious Royal College of Organists, musical adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp. (he once divided human time into three ages: B.C., A.D., and B.B.C.); after an automobile accident; in Oxford.
Died. Patriarch Benjamin I, 78, since 1936 the 265th Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church—and as such the Ecumenical Patriarch (that is, spiritual sovereign of all Orthodox Churches); of bronchitis; in Istanbul.
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon, 88, kinetic Congregationalist pastor who wrote In His Steps, alltime best-selling novel (25 million copies in 21 languages); in Topeka, Kans. Thanks to careless copyrighting, In His Steps, the story of a preacher who made his life an imitation of Christ's, brought its author a mere $6,689.42.
*Now in a French sanatorium with tuberculosis; in occupied Paris, the mistress of Nazi Ambassador Otto Abetz.
† For news of another Bach choir, see Music.