Married. Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, 50, Chief of the Army Service Forces; and Louise Hampton Wartmann, 49, friend from his West Point days; both for the second time; in Ocala, Fla.

Remarried. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 42, veteran Scripps-Howard columnist, now in North Africa and Geraldine Siebolds Pyle, 43, eleven months after their divorce (after 16 years); by proxy; in Albuquerque, N.M.

Died. Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (John Brown's Body) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A more popular poet than either his brother William Rose or his sister Laura, he was also a deft fiction writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster), nearly always wrote of the American scene. He was a tall, loose-limbed, shyly humorous, friendly man with a boyish look despite his mustache and thick-lensed glasses. He published his first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This 100,000-word verse narrative sold over 180,000 copies. When the U.S. entered World War II, Benet was midway through another book-length narrative poem about frontier life; abandoning it for the duration, he produced such notable radio scripts as Your Army (for the This Is War series) and Dear Adolf. The President read Benet's Prayer for United Nations on his Flag Day broadcast last year.

Died. Laurence Binyon, 73, poet. Orientalist ; in Reading, England. He was best known for his World War I ode. For the Fallen* which was widely popularized when broadcast in 1934 by the Prince of Wales at Armistice Day ceremonies. He was the British Museum's keeper of prints & drawings.

Died. May Imelda Josephine Irwin, 74, Dowager Countess of Limerick, Dublin society beauty of the '80s; in ghost-ridden Hall Place, her palatial home in Bexley, England. She periodically reported encountering the armored ghost of Edward the Black Prince, found it "dreadfully distressing."

Died. John Pierpont Morgan, 75; in Bocagrande. Fla. (see p. 61).

Died. William Phillips (Cinemactor Tully Marshall), 78, lantern-jawed veteran of Hollywood's silent days; inEncino, Calif. His roles ranged from damp-rotted beachcombers to dyspeptic plutocrats; his biggest hit: as The Covered Wagon's bibulous frontier scout, Jim Bridger.

*They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

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