Divorced. By Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 44, cousin of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth: Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton of Scotland, 43, brother of the Duke of Hamilton; after 21 years of marriage, four children; in Edinburgh.

Died. Robert Henry Best, 56, South Carolina-born newspaperman and longtime (1923-41) United Press correspondent in Vienna, who turned traitor during World War II, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948 (TIME, July 12, 1948) for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin (sample: "I hope that Europe will demand the life of one Jew for every European who dies in the present war"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo.

Died. Joseph Charles Rovensky, 66, longtime (1928-45) vice president of the Chase National Bank; of a stroke; in Manhattan. As chief negotiator during the '30's for 118 American banks that had made post-World War I loans to Germany, Banker Rovensky wheedled from defaulting German banks $465 million (at 60-c- on the dollar).

Died. Brigadier General Thomas Bentley Mott (ret.), 87, longtime military aide-de-camp and attache in Paris, personal representative of General Pershing during World War I; in Biarritz.

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