Married. Technical Sergeant Jake Lindsey, 24, just decorated by President Truman as the 100th World War II infantryman to win the Congressional Medal of Honor; and Beverly Hargreaves, 19, of Lexington, Mass., a blonde blind-date whom he met four years ago before shipping overseas; in Lucedale, Miss.

Married. Peter Lorre, 41, Hungarian-born cinemactor specializing in whimsically fiendish roles (M; Hotel Berlin); and Kaaren Verne, 27, Vienna-born cinemactress (The Seventh Cross, Kings Row): both for the second time; directly after her uncontested divorce from British Band leader Arthur Young; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. By Christine Cromwell White, 23, only daughter of onetime Diplomat James (Jimmy) H. R. Cromwell, ex-husband of Doris Duke: Frederic Putnam White, 25, Boston socialite, now a Navy boatswain's mate; after four years of marriage (two children); in West Palm Beach, Fla. To get her uncontested divorce, Dodge Auto Heiress White gave her mother-in-law custody of the two children, agreed to toss in a couple of $1,000,000 trust funds for them.

Died. Denyse Clairouin, raven-haired French literary agent, translator of D. H. Lawrence and Tagore, and an ardent organizer of anti-Nazi resistance; of pneumonia (on March 12 but just reported), contracted when the Nazis gave her a brutal five-day ride in an open freight car from the Ravensbruck to the Mulhausen concentration camps.

Died. Lieut. Commander John McCloy, 69, longtime U.S. Navy professional, one of the eight men in U.S. history to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (for heroism in the Boxer uprising in 1900 and at the storming of the Veracruz Customs House in 1914); of a heart attack; in Leonia, N.J.

Died. William Joseph Simmons, 75, indefatigable founder of fraternal orders (Knights of the Kamelia, The White Band), ex-preacher and traveling salesman, fanatical first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, which he helped revive in 1915 and goaded on to a monstrous 4,000,000 membership before he was bought out (for $90,000) in 1923 by Klansman Hiram Davis ; after long illness ; in Atlanta. Wizard Simmons could soft-talk away blood-&-thunder at the drop of a subpoena. He once testified at a Congressional investigation: "Our mask and robe, I say before God, are as innocent as the breath of an angel."

Died. Miguel Simonson, 88, opulent Nicaraguan landowner and father of 46 surviving children (35 sons, eleven daughters); in Managua, Nicaragua.

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