Married. Mitt Romney, 22, youngest son of the HUD Secretary and a sophomore at Brigham Young University; and Ann Davies, 19, daughter of a Detroit industrialist and a Mormon convert; in Salt Lake City.
Married. John Lennon, 28, brainiest Beatle; and Yoko Ono, 36, Japanese sculptress and his steady companion for the past year; he for the second time, she for the third; in Gibraltar.
Married. Orval Faubus, 59, ex-Governor of Arkansas now directing Dogpatch, U.S.A., a sprawling Ozark park; and Elizabeth Westmoreland, 30, a Dogpatch publicity flak;* both for the second time; in Little Rock.
Died. John Mason Brown, 68, journalist, drama critic and lecturer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of a Louisville, Ky., lawyer, Brown was labeled the "Confederate Aristotle" for his self-deprecating wit and tongue-in-cheek pedantry. He was drama critic for the New York Evening Post from 1929 until 1941; after that, his Saturday Review column, "Seeing Things," became a forum for broad commentary. But the theater was always his passion, and in 1963 he quit the Pulitzer jury when the prize was not awarded to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Died. Major General Courtney Whitney, 71, longtime aide and confidant of General Douglas Mac Arthur, who resigned from the Army in protest when MacArthur was recalled from Korea by President Truman, stoutly defended the general before a Senate inquiry and in a biography, MacArthur: His Rendezvous with History; in Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Died. Leander Perez, 77, bedrock Louisiana reactionary, who battled the forces of progress and integration from his throne in oil-rich Plaquemines Parish for nearly 50 years; of a heart attack; at his plantation south of New Orleans. Perez became district attorney of Plaquemines Parish in 1924, and created one of the nation's most powerful political machines. Calling blacks "Congolese" and "burrheads," he gained nationwide notoriety for his bitter fights against school desegregation and Negro voter registration in Louisiana.
Died. Grover Magnin, 83, specialty-store magnate, who helped build I. Magnin & Co. into a 21-store chain that became the prime West Coast source of haute couture, was named president in 1944 when I. Magnin merged with Bullock's of Los Angeles, but was later eased out of office by the Bullock faction; in San Francisco.
-No kin to the general.