Married. William Orville Douglas, 56, Fair -Dealing, globe -trotting Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; and Mrs. Mercedes Hester Davidson, 37, longtime friend, admirer, and researcher for the Justice's last three travel books; both for the second time (her first: onetime Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson); in Tallulah, La.
Married. Malvin Marr Albright, 57, controversial Chicago sculptor and painter, of richly colored, meticulously detailed still lifes and portrait studies (Victoria, Girl in Red), son of aged painter Adam Emory Albright, twin brother of painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright; and Mrs. Cornelia Fairbanks Ericourt, 42, granddaughter of Charles Warren Fairbanks, vice president of the United States under Theodore Roosevelt (1905-09); he for the first time, she for the third; in Old Saybrook, Conn.
Died. Edwin, David and Geoffrey Grove, young (8,6,4) sons of Edwin W. Grove Jr., patent medicine (Bromo Quinine) heir; in a fire that razed the Grove's Italian-style country home; in Northport, Me., while their mother was in Boston expecting another child.
Died. Frederick C. Miller, 48, president of the Miller Brewing Co. (Miller High Life), director of the Milwaukee Braves and the Green Bay Packers, former spare-time "honorary coach" of the Notre Dame football team; and Frederick C. Miller Jr., 20, Notre Dame student; in a private-plane crash; at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field. An All-America tackle and team captain at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and a sportsman ever since, Miller took over the family brewery in 1947, with shrewd advertising (for year-round, quality trade) and an expanded plant and distribution network nearly quadrupled annual sales in six years, putting Miller among the top ten U.S. beer producers.
Died. Lee Morse, 50, blues-singing star of early radio, vocalist for the Blue Grass Boys in the 1920s and '30s, song writer (Shadows on the Wall), sister of Glenn Taylor, former left-wing Democratic U.S. Senator from Idaho; in Rochester, N.Y.
Died. Claude Ernest Hooper, 56, one of the best known (with George Gallup and Elmo Roper) of U.S. public pulse-takers, originator (in 1934) of the Hooper ratings for radio and television, one of the most respected audience barometers in the business; in a boating accident; on Utah's Great Salt Lake.
Died. Vice Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, 63, victorious wartime skipper of the battleship South Dakota at the battles of Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal in late 1942, postwar Judge Advocate General of the Navy; of a heart ailment; in San Diego.
With a green crew, Catch's ship downed 26 Japanese planes at Santa Cruz, helped turn back a Japanese task force off Savo Island, contributed importantly to the collapse, due to lack of supplies and reinforcements, of the Japanese drive on Guadalcanal's Henderson Field.
Died. Raymond Stallings McLain, 64, first National Guard officer (Oklahoma) to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the Regular Army, wartime commander of the XIX Corps in the Battle of the Bulge and in the drive across the Elbe, postwar comptroller of the Army and member of the National Security Training Commission, board chairman of Oklahoma City's American First Trust and Title Co.; of leukemia; in Washington.