Married. Eleanore Whitney, 21, pretty stage-&-screen tap dancer; and Frederick Backer, 29, former Assistant U. S. Attorney; in Manhattan.

Married. Erskine Caldwell, 35, once-divorced novelist and short story writer (Tobacco Road); and Margaret Bourke-White, 31, once-divorced artist-photographer; in Silver City, Nev. Last November she declared: "I will not marry him no matter how many reporters want me to."

Married. Carl Van Doren, 53, bang-haired literary critic, author (Benjamin Franklin); and Jean Wright Gorman, 38-year-old Manhattanite; both for the second time; in San Francisco.

Died. Hirosi Saito, 52, onetime (1934-38) Japanese Ambassador to the U. S.; of tuberculosis; in Washington. A gay little man whose wife likened him to a tireless, leaping carp, Ambassador Saito was the youngest, most popular Japanese Ambassador ever to come to Washington. After the sinking of the Panay, which he called a "shocking blunder," he took the unprecedented course of apologizing over the radio, canceled all engagements, cried: "I'm in the doghouse."

Died. Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, 55, U. S. charge d'affaires in Germany since Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson's recall last November; of thrombosis; in Berlin.

Died. Eugene J. Young, 64, cable editor of the New York Times; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1913 he predicted a general European war within a year, in March 1918 predicted the War would end before Christmas.

Died. Judge John J. Gore, 65, onetime law partner of Cordell Hull; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. As a judge in Tennessee's U. S. district court, Judge Gore once awarded 19 private power companies an injunction against TVA, was later overruled by higher courts.

Died. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, 70, widow of Nikolai Lenin (real name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), "Grand Old Woman" of the Russian Revolution; in Moscow. Aristocratic, indomitable little Krupskaya met Lenin, also wellborn, in 1894 while working for the revolution in St. Petersburg, married him few years later when they had both been exiled to Siberia. She took an active part in politics even after her husband's death, was admired by Stalin although she sometimes criticized his policies. Day before she died she celebrated her 70th birthday, received a hearty message from the Party's Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars, wishing her "good health and many more years of fruitful work."

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