Marriage Revealed. Judy Canova, 33 hillbilly entertainer; and Philip Rivero 37, Cuban importer; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Mexico, in June.

Died. William Olaf Stapledon, 64 Egypt-born British philosopher (A Modern Theory of Ethics) and fiction writer (such early-Wellsian fantasies as Last and First Men, Odd John, Sinus); of a coronary occlusion; in Cheshire, England. A longtime one-worlder, Stapledon achieved a measure of distinction in March 1949 as the only British delegate at the Communist-backed Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace* in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria.

Died. Harvey Dow Gibson, 68, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., sixth largest U.S. bank (TIME, Sept. n), American Red Cross officer, chairman (1939-41) of the New York World's Fair, sportsman, joiner, booster (he spent more than $300,000 to make his home town of North Conway, N.H. a fancy ski resort); of a heart ailment; in Boston. Gibson started out as a floor-sweeper after his graduation from Bowdoin College, became a bank president at 35. He was general manager of the Red Cross in World War I, its commissioner to Great Britain, then to Western Europe, in World War II.

Died. Sigmund Gale, 77, who in 1926 founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents.

Died. Dr. Desiderio Roman, 79, Philadelphia surgeon, onetime (1943-45) president of the International College of Surgeons; in Philadelphia. A U.S. citizen ince 1898, Dr. Roman was brother of the ate Nicaraguan President Victor Manuel Ionian y Reyes, uncle of Nicaraguan president Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza.

Died. Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, 80, world statesman; after long Hness; in his home near Pretoria, Union if South Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Brigadier General Jefferson Randolph Kean,/- 90, U.S. Army surgeon who took part in wars against Sioux, Spanish and Germans, helped conquer yellow ever in turn-of-the-century Cuba, helped reate the U.S. Army's Medical Reserve "orps; in Washington, D.C.

*Four British delegates missed it because the U.S. State Department canceled their visas.

/-No kin to Major General William B. Kean, commander of the U.S. 25th Division in Korea.

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