Married. Anne Graham, 18, daughter of Evangelist Billy Graham; and Dr. Daniel Lotz, 29, dentist son of a Baptist minister; with both reverend fathers officiating; in Montreal, N.C.
Married. Serena Russell, 22, debutante daughter of former. Vogue Publisher Edwin F. Russell and Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill (Winston's cousin); and R. Stephen Salant Jr., 25, Manhattan commodity broker; in a tense ceremony at which the bride's parents tried to smile away the fact that Mom was just in from Reno, where she'd gone to sue Dad for divorce, and Dad had just gone to court to prevent Mom from taking three other daughters out of the state; in Southampton, N.Y.
Married. Margaret McNamara, 24, daughter of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; and Barry Carter, 24, a Yale law student; in Washington, D.C. Among the 300 guests: President and Mrs. Johnson, Vice President Humphrey, Chief Justice Warren, most of the Cabinet, and the Senators Kennedy.
Died. Nicholas Piantanida, 33, U.S. parachutist, who tried last May to make a free-fall jump from 125,000 ft., was injured when his oxygen system failed during the balloon ascent 57,000 ft. above Minnesota and emergency efforts to get him down did not prevent 31 minutes of oxygen starvation, causing brain damage and a coma from which he never awakened; of cardiorespiratory failure; in Philadelphia.
Died. J. Howard McGrath, 62, Democratic politician, a wealthy New England real estate man who was thrice elected Governor of Rhode Island ('40, '42, '44), then served under the aegis of Good Friend Harry S. Truman as U.S. Solicitor General, U.S. Senator, Democratic National Chairman and, finally, from 1949 to 1952, Attorney General; of a heart attack; in Narragansett, R.I. McGrath's political demise came when Truman ordered him to look into cor ruption in government and McGrath hired Liberal Republican Newbold Morris as a special investigator; Morris began by investigating McGrath, which so enraged the Attorney General that he fired him, whereupon Truman reacted by summarily firing McGrath.
Died. Martin W. Clement, 84, president (1935-49) and board chairman (1949-51) of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who handled practically every job on the country's biggest road at one time or another, becoming a happy blend of operating and financial man, which let him maintain the Pennsy's unbroken record of dividend payments throughout the Depression while electrifying the line from New York to Harrisburg; of severe anemia; in Rosemont, Pa.