Married. Harriet Aldrich, 22, pretty, biochemist daughter of Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich; and Lieut. Edgar A. Bering Jr., 27, Navy research doctor at the Harvard Medical School; in Manhattan.

Married. Dale Carnegie, 55, famed meeter and influencer; and Dorothy Price Vanderpool, 32, Carnegie Institute secretary; both for the second time; on the eighth publication anniversary of his classic How To Win Friends & Influence People; in Tulsa. Said he: "Even after I wrote that book, it took me eight years to influence a woman to marry me."

Died. Sigourney Thayer, 47, comical, acidulous son of the late Headmaster William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, World War I aviator, later Vultee Aircraft executive, husband of Socialites Emily Davies Vanderbilt and Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell; in an automobile accident ; in Allentown, Pa.

Died. Thomas Midgley Jr., 55, discoverer of tetraethyl lead for antiknock gasoline, vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., president of the American Chemical Society; of accidental strangulation, by a self-devised harness for getting in & out of bed since he was invalided in 1940 by infantile paralysis; in Worthington. Ohio.

He held over 100 patents, uncovered in dichlorodifluoromethane (trade name, Freon) a nontoxic, non-inflammable gas that became America's No. 1 refrigerant, later served as a high-priority war weapon for killing tropical insects.

Died. Dr. Alexis Carrel, 71, French master surgeon and scientific philosopher (Man the Unknown), 1912 Nobel Prize winner for suturing blood vessels and transplanting living organs, collaborator with Charles Lindbergh on the "mechanical heart''; of prolonged heart trouble; in France. Son of a Lyons silk merchant, chunky, bald, beret-wearing Carrel could reputedly thrust his thumb & index finger inside a matchbox, tie a catgut knot impossible to undo with two hands. In nearest-complete secrecy, he experimented in his black-toned, dustless Manhattan laboratories, later on isolated St. Gildas Isle off France. A wit, connoisseur, inspired but abstemious gourmet and longtime agnostic, he received the last rites of the Roman Catholic church; his final illness prevented his trial for collaboration with the Nazis.

Died. Jack Miner, 79, famed Canadian ornithologist, founder of a pioneer North American bird sanctuary in Kingsville, Ont. ; after a heart attack; in Kingsville. He clipped aluminum bands stamped with scriptural texts and his address on to birds' legs; received in 1943 the Order of the British Empire from George VI.

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