Married. Craig Rice, 39, tireless manufacturer of farcical whodunits for radio (Murder and Mr. Malone), cinema (The Falcon in Danger) and lending library (Home Sweet Homicide); and Henry W. De Mott, 28, fledgling scriptwriter; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in San Diego.

Married. Paul Mellon, 40, onetime banker, horse breeder who races a stable of steeplechasers, son of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon; and Rachel ("Bunny") Lambert Lloyd, 37, daughter of drug (Listerine) and razor-blade (Gillette) Tycoon Gerard Barnes Lambert; each for the second time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Margaret Sullavan, 38, husky-voiced stage (Voice of the Turtle) and screen (Cry Havoc) star: third husband* Leland Hayward, 46, air-minded, airline-owning (Southwest Airways) Broadway producer and actors' agent; after nearly twelve years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Tom Breneman (Smith), 47, folksy star of radio's Breakfast in Hollywood; of a heart attack; in Encino, Calif. A onetime pianologuing vaudevillian, he charmed U.S. housewives with homey gallantry and life-of-the-party gags on his immensely popular (estimated audience: ten million), seven-year-old breakfast program.

Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Soecking, Germany.

Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model T.

Died. Wilhelm von Opel, 76, Germany's gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit.

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