Married. Al Jolson, 56, veteran "Mammy" singer; and Erie Galbraithe, 21, Southern-syllabled cinema starlet, ex-X-ray technician, remote kinswoman of General Claire Chennault; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Quartzsite, Ariz.

Divorced. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, youngest Wimbledon tennis champion in history (19 in 1931), ex-Davis Cup star, now co-owner (with Tennist Don Budge) of a swank Manhattan laundry; by Edith Betts Wood, 33, New York socialite; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Died. Major General William H. Rupertus, 55, big-jowled commandant of Marine Corps schools at Quantico, Va., able commander in the Solomons and Palau islands campaigns; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Steve Donoghue, 60, tiny, socially sought-after British jockey who rode six Derby winners in his 30-year career, won the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Ascot six times in succession; of a heart attack; in London. He once declined the post of royal jockey to the late King George V with a frank explanation: the royal string was not quite up to his standard.

Died. Dorothy Campbell Kurd Howe, 61, only woman who ever won the world's four major women's golf championships: Scottish (1905, 1906, 1908), British (1909, 1911), Canadian (1910, 1912), U.S. (1909, 1910, 1924); from a fall beneath a train which she was boarding; in Yamassee, S.C.

Died. Lord Alfred Douglas, 74, scholar, sonneteer, son of boxing's famed rules-maker, the late eighth Marquess of Queensberry, whose note denouncing young Alfred's friend, Oscar Wilde, was the cause of Wilde's libel suit and subsequent imprisonment for pederasty; after long illness ; in Lancing, Sussex, England. Lord Alfred spent a lifetime defending and explaining himself and his poet friend (Oscar, Wilde and Myself, Autobiography, Oscar Wilde: a Summing Up).

Died. Marshal Enrico Caviglia, 82, onetime Italian Minister of War (1919), Senator, World War I hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary."

Died. David Lloyd George, Earl of Dwyfor, 82, Britain's Prime Minister during World War I, last surviving member of the first Big Three (the others: Wood-row Wilson and France's Clemenceau); of complications following influenza; in Llan-ystumdwy, Wales. Through five reigns and three wars, the fiery, witty, flamboyant Welshman enlivened the House of Commons. A combination of zeal, oratory and energy pushed him, step by step, to leadership of the Liberal Party, the British Government, and finally the Empire-at-war.

Born in Manchester (where his schoolmaster-father happened to be teaching), David Lloyd George was nonetheless first, last & always a Welshman. He grew up in North Wales without ever attending either public school or university, but never appeared to be much troubled by the lack. At 21 he became a solicitor without ceremony (he could not afford three guineas for the customary robes).

The year Robert Browning and Jefferson Davis died (1889), brash young Lloyd George, bubbling over with a reformer's fervor, won a seat in Parliament. His sharp tongue quickly made him enemies. In the wholesale barrage of criticism he inspired, he was charged with everything but cowardice. Belaboring Lloyd George became a Parliamentary habit. During his long career, he was denounced (among other things) for pacifism, for hypocrisy, for devising soak-the-rich budgets, for tactlessness.

When World War I seemed lost, it was the "Welsh wizard" with the glib tongue and unwavering eye who patched up Britain's faith in victory. He smoothly talked the reluctant British High Command into accepting the leadership of "simple, honorable, absolutely fearless" Marshal Foch. An architect of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations (both of which he was accused of bungling), he lived to see both curl up in the flames of World War II.

As his Liberal Party began to decline, Lloyd George lost power, became Britain's premier Elder Statesman. He still spoke with authority--but only for himself. In time his white-thatched, black-caped figure appeared less & less often in London, more & more often on his Surrey and Caernarvonshire estates. But World War II brought him to his feet in Commons to give Prime Minister Chamberlain a piece of his mind for sending the Finns "too little and too late."

Even in his old age, friends & foes claimed that Lloyd George could still "talk a bird out of a tree." Last summer he returned to the 400-year-old farmhouse of his boyhood for his "last days." He finally accepted an earldom from a grateful government (TIME, Jan. 8). Of him Winston Churchill said: "There is no history like his in living memory. . . . Indeed, history will have to return her pages back to Chatham to find his parallel. . . ."

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