Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles.

Died. Francis George, Lord North, 38, descendant of England's eighth Lord North, Prime Minister during the American Revolution; and the Lady Cynthia Williams, his sister; when a land mine exploded as they strolled along the seashore in a prohibited area; somewhere in southeast England. (Lady North was injured.)

Died. Jean Pierre Clement Marie, Due de Guise, 65, pretender to the French throne; in Larache, Spanish Morocco. In recent weeks many a Frenchman prophesied that 6 ft. 6 in. Jean III would succeed Petain as Chief of State, re-establish the monarchy.

Died. Max David Steuer, 69, slick, hawk-faced criminal lawyer who rescued many a careless bigwig and stumbling mobster from legal quicksands; of a heart attack; in Jackson, N. H. Born in Austria, Jewish Max Steuer emigrated to Manhattan as a boy, worked day & night to pay for his legal education. At the height of his career, candid, inconspicuous Steuer was reputed to have made $1,000,000 a year. Among his clients: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Gangster John Torrio, ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Fight Promoter Tex Rickard, onetime Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Charles E. Mitchell, onetime president of National City Bank of New York.

Died. Ernest Lawrence ("Phinney") Thayer, 77, bronzed, snow-haired author of the famed doggerel, Casey at the Bat; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Still engraved in schoolboy hearts of the '90s is its closing quatrain:

Oh! somewhere in this favored land the
sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere,
and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and
somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville--
mighty Casey has struck out.

Died. Sir Oliver Lodge, 89, famed physicist and spiritualist; of pneumonia; in Wiltshire, England. He intended to communicate with fellow members of the English Society for Psychical Research after his death, and, for verification, left under seal copies of the messages he planned to send.

Died. William A. Barns, 113, ex-slave reputed to be the Civil War's oldest veteran; in San Francisco. Negro Barns, whose age was corroborated by Army records, claimed that he ran away to join the Union forces, attributed his longevity to "gin and pork chops."

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