Birthday. Britain's George VI, his 45th, observed "somewhere in the country" with his Queen and two daughters, but--because of rationing--without his usual plum cake at tea. Official celebration waits till June, when colors can be trooped with better prospect of sunshine. Last week the fourth anniversary of his accession to Edward YIU's throne occurred.

Married. Oetje (rhymes with peachy) John Rogge, 36, redheaded. Assistant Attorney General who ably hounded State and local grafters in New Orleans, Kansas City. Detroit; and Wanda Johnston, 34; he for the second time; at Des Moines. Iowa.

Married. Gerald P. Nye, 48 (this week), North Dakota's recently divorced isolationist junior Senator; and Marguerite Johnson, 32, Rock Island. Ill. high-school teacher; at Iowa Falls. Iowa. They first met in Estes Park, Colo., when the Senator climbed out of his car to help Miss Johnson repair a tire.

Divorced. Freeman F. Gosden, 41. Virginia-born tenor half of the radio team "Amos V Andy"; by Leta S. Gosden, 40; after twelve years' marriage; because he had become "sullen and morose"; in Los Angeles.

Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Cromwell Bosley, 45. foremost U. S. woman horse trainer, breeder of unbeaten Chase Me, who this year took over the big racing string owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Graham Lewis (Elizabeth Arden); when her car left the road, crashed into a tree; near Baltimore.

Died. J. Harold Murray, 49, handsome hero of Ziegfeld's Rio Rita, many another Broadway musical of the '20s, who retired from the stage in 1935, bought himself an interest in a Hartford brewery; at Killingworth, Conn.

Died. Princess Maria of Greece, 64, aunt of Greece's King George II and of the Duchess of Kent, onetime mother-in-law of Tin-Plate Heir William B. Leeds Jr.; of heart disease; in Athens.

Died. Baron Bruno Schroder, 73, for 30 years senior partner in the potent, old (1804) London banking house of J. Henry Schroder & Co., in which he represented the third generation: at Englefield Green, Surrey, England.

Left. By the late Franklyn Laws Hutton (TIME, Dec. 16), Manhattan broker: to the Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, "a loving father's blessing for her future happiness" (adding that what money he could leave her would be "quite inconsequential"); to his widow, Mrs. Irene C. Hutton, with whom he became reconciled after last year repudiating her debts, his entire estate.

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