Marriage Revealed. Marian Anderson, 38, famed Negro contralto; and Orpheus Hodge Fisher, 43, Negro war-plant draftsman, peacetime New York architect, her oldtime beau; last July 17; in Bethel, Conn.

Died. William Warren Barbour, 55, Republican Senator from New Jersey off & on since 1931, onetime National Amateur Heavyweight Boxing Champion; or coronary thrombosis; in Washington.

Died. Lorenz Hart, 48, lyric half of Rodgers & Hart, habitual hit-tunesmiths; in Manhattan. To Richard Rodgers' swingful songs pint-sized, cigar-mangling Hart had joined his agile verses more than 1,000 times, enlivened more than 25 Broadway shows, including Pol Joey, On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, A Connecticut Yankee (see p. 44).

Died. J. William Ditter, 55, Republican National Congressional Committee Chairman since 1939, able party strategist. Pennsylvania Representative (the 17th District) since 1933; in the crash of a naval plane; near Columbia, Pa.

Died. Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, 60, top-ranking Japanese naval constructor, early experimenter with blitz warfare against civilians; of an acute pancreas ailment; in Tokyo.

Died. Henry Bascom Steagall, 70. Democratic Representative from Alabama since 1915, chairman of the House's Banking & Currency Committee, longtime leader of the House's powerful farm bloc; of a heart attack, three days after speaking for his inflationary Commodity Credit Corporation bill (see p. 22); in Washington.

Died. Dr. Sergeo I. Spasokukotey, 73, Russian experimental surgeon, pioneer blood-banker; somewhere in the Soviet Union. In 1934 he helped Dr. Serge Brukhanenko "revive" for two minutes a suicide three hours dead.

Died. Brigadier General Sir William Horwood, 75, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (1920-28). World War I Provost Marshal of the British Expeditionary Force in France; after a brief illness; in West Mersea, England. Grey-mustached Sir William's principles were as high as his bowler, his methods sometimes as narrow as his collar. He did not like the idea of female bobbies. In 1922 he cunningly waved away poisoned eclairs sent to him by mail, soon afterwards mistook some arsenious chocolate creams for an expected gift. He recovered--and succeeded in tracking down the insane sender of both sweets.

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