Married. Maria Isabella Patino y Bourbon, 18, Bolivian tin millionheiress; and James Michael Goldsmith, 20, son of a wealthy London hotelman; in Kelso, Scotland (see PEOPLE).

Divorced. Paul Gallico, 56, veteran sportswriter and popular author (Trial by Terror, The Snow Goose); by his third wife, Pauline Garibaldi Gallico, onetime Hungarian baroness; after nearly 15 years of marriage, no children; in Virginia City, Nev.

Died. Chester Wilmot, 42, Australian-born military correspondent, best-known in the U.S. for his bestselling 1952 book, The Struggle for Europe; in the crash of a British jet airliner off Italy's west coast (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Aime Felix Tschiffely, 58, Swiss-born British schoolmaster who emigrated to Argentina, won fame and fortune after he made a 10,000-mile trip on horseback from Buenos Aires to Washington, D.C. (1925-28), wrote two widely read accounts of his feat (From Southern Cross to Pole Star, Tschiffely's Ride); after an operation; in London.

Died. Walter James Vincent ("Rabbit") Maranville, 61, one of U.S. baseball's crack major-league infielders for more than two decades (1912-35); of a heart attack; in New York City (see SPORT).

Died. Countess Dorothy (Taylor) di Frasso, 66, fun-loving international hostess; of a heart attack; in a roomette aboard a train taking her from Las Vegas, Nev. back to her Hollywood playground. Inheriting an estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner to search for a buried treasure off Costa Rica. When death came, the Countess was in full re galia: a full-length mink coat covered her, $500,000 worth of jewels were on her person and in her luggage.

Died. Thomas Elmer Braniff, 70, Oklahoma City insuranceman, founder-president of Braniff International Airways (1928), the nation's sixth largest airline; with eleven others in the crash of a privately owned Mallard amphibian plane which iced up on the way home from a duck-hunting trip; on the shore of Lake Wallace, near Shreveport, La.

Died. Walter Edward ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, 78, legendary California prospector-fraud; of a gastrointestinal ailment; at Scotty's Corner, Nev. Scotty first made headlines in 1905 when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets of Manhattan in a buckboard with a kegful of gold pieces between his knees, left behind a trail of $50 bills whenever he hit town. In 1941 Scotty broke down and confessed that the gold mine was a myth; he had been grubstaked "for laughs" by the late multimillionaire. Chicago Insurance-Tycoon Albert Johnson.

Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London.

Died. Oscar Straus, 83, famed Viennese composer (no kin to Waltz King Johann Strauss or Bavarian Composer Richard Strauss) who wrote some 50 sparkling operettas (The Chocolate Soldier, Waltz Dream); of a heart ailment; in Bad Ischl, Austria.

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