Married. Barbara Ward, 36, convent-bred, primly pretty British author (The West at Bay), former editor of London's influential Economist; and Australian Naval Officer Robert Jackson, 39; he for the second time; in Felixstowe, England.

Died. Louis Stix Weiss, 56, top lawyer for Chicago's Millionaire Marshall Field III, since 1942 chairman of the board of the New School for Social Research; of a coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.

Died. Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob"), 71, Vermont-born Ohio doctor and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous; after long illness; in Akron. In 1935 Smith met a visiting Manhattan stockbroker, "Bill W.," in Akron. Both alcoholics, they decided that the only hope lay in banding together, formed A.A., substituted confessions, coffee & doughnuts, group meetings and trust in a "higher power" for the escapes alcohol had provided. A.A. now has more than 110,000 members in the U.S. and abroad, is credited with keeping about half of them from the bottle.

Died. Robert Kilburn Root, 73, Brooklyn-born Princeton scholar, Chaucer expert, onetime dean (1933-46) of the faculty; in St. Louis.

Died. John H. Fahey, 77, head of the New Deal's Home Owners' Loan Corp. (1933-48); of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. A onetime (1909-10) vice president of the Associated Press and editor (1903-10) of the Boston Traveler, New Hampshire-born John Fahey was a co-founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, between 1933 and 1936 lent $3,093,451,321 to 1,017,821 householders (one-fifth of the period's mortgage loans), ended HOLC up in the black.

Died. Billy B. Van,* 80, palavering onetime vaudeville comic, who toured with Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, retired 25 years ago to manufacture soap, plugged chewing gum on the radio, emerged from retirement last year to play in Mae West's Diamond Lil; of a heart ailment; in Newport, N.H.

* Not to be confused with famed Comedian Gus Van.

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