Married. John Clunies-Ross, 22, "King" (by land inheritance) of Britain's lonely Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, and Lancashire Lass Daphne Parkinson, 21; in London (TIME, Sept. 3).

Divorced. Cinemactor Cornel (Forever Amber, A Song to Remember) Wilde, 35: by sometime Cinemactress Patricia (The Fabulous Texan) Knight, 31; after 14 years of marriage, one daughter, on & off separations since 1947; in Reno.

Died. Robert Walker, 32, boyish cinemactor (Strangers on a Train; See Here, Private Hargrove), at the peak of a successful screen comeback after an emotional crackup and widely publicized alcoholic escapades; of respiratory failure, after a doctor had given him a dose of sodium amytal to quiet an emotional upset; in Hollywood. Born in Salt Lake City (where his father edited the Deseret News), Walker went off to theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood--he in Bataan, she (as Jennifer Jones) in The Song of Bernadette. In 1945, after waiting two years to avoid publicity that might harm Bernadette, Jennifer Jones divorced him, leaving him to carry what the columnists called "the biggest torch in Hollywood." He emerged from the Menninger psychiatric clinic in 1948 "a new man." A few days before his death, he completed (with Helen Hayes) My Son John, perhaps his best picture.

Died. Petko Stoyanov, 71, second surviving member of Bulgaria's anti-Communist triumvirate, former cabinet minister (1944-47); of undisclosed causes; in a "People's Militia" prison in Sofia.

Died. Abraham Cahan, 91, author (The Rise of David Levinsky), co-founder and editor (1897-1950) of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward (circ. 150,000), one of the most influential foreign-language (Yiddish) papers in the U.S. At 21, because of his radical political sympathies, he left Czarist Russia for Manhattan's lower East Side. Through the columns of the Forward, he presented democratic socialism as well as lighter reading in terms that ill-educated immigrants could understand, fought to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in the garment trades, became a leading anti-Communist in the Jewish world.

Died. Dr. Alfred Worcester, 96, Harvard's oldest graduate ('78), surgeon, teacher and writer; of a heart attack; in Waltham, Mass. One of the first in New England to perform an appendectomy and Caesarean section, Worcester went back to Harvard as professor of hygiene (1925-35), authored many papers and books on nursing, sex hygiene and geriatrics, set up Waltham's hospital and nursing school.

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