Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick, Ga.

Died. Jean Luchaire, 45, arch-collaborating French journalist who headed the Nazi-controlled Paris press, father of pretty, pouting, collaborating Cinemactress Corinne Luchaire*; before a firing squad, for treason; at Fort de Chatillon, Paris.

Died. Raymond Leslie Buell, 49, author (Isolated America, Poland: Key to Europe], 1933-39 Foreign Policy Association president, research worker for Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign; of a pulmonary embolism after a cranial operation; in Montreal. Long an insistent internationalist, Ray Buell had been a TIME, Inc. foreign-affairs adviser since 1942.

Died. Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin (pronounced pot-yom-kin), 68, former U.S.S.R. Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whose tactful, pactful diplomacy was largely responsible for treaties with Italy (1933) and France (1935); after long illness; in Moscow. A revolution-minded mathematics teacher in Tsarist days, amiable polyglot (septilingual) Potemkin championed collective security, was Maxim Litvinoffs longtime right-hand man.

Died. Sir Hugh Allen, 76, Oxford University music professor, former conductor of the famed Oxford Bach Choir,/- president of the prestigious Royal College of Organists, musical adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp. (he once divided human time into three ages: B.C., A.D., and B.B.C.); after an automobile accident; in Oxford.

Died. Patriarch Benjamin I, 78, since 1936 the 265th Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church--and as such the Ecumenical Patriarch (that is, spiritual sovereign of all Orthodox Churches); of bronchitis; in Istanbul.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon, 88, kinetic Congregationalist pastor who wrote In His Steps, alltime best-selling novel (25 million copies in 21 languages); in Topeka, Kans. Thanks to careless copyrighting, In His Steps, the story of a preacher who made his life an imitation of Christ's, brought its author a mere $6,689.42.

*Now in a French sanatorium with tuberculosis; in occupied Paris, the mistress of Nazi Ambassador Otto Abetz.

/- For news of another Bach choir, see Music.

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