Married. Lu.Ann Simms, 22, TV-Radio warbler (Arthur Godfrey and His Friends) ; and Loring Bruce Buzzell, 26, music publisher; both for the first time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By John Jacob Astor III, 42: Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, his second wife; after ten years of marriage (four years of separation), one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. J. (for Joseph) Cornelius Rathborne, 45, a director of New Orleans' Times-Picayune Publishing Co., banker, financier and onetime ranking polo player (six goals); of pancreatitis; in Boston. Rathborne made unsolicited headlines in 1939 when he and his wife were left dangling 110 ft. in the air for five hours during a breakdown of the parachute jump at New York's World's Fair, returned undaunted the following evening to whiz up and down in 30 seconds.

Died. Navy Captain William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, 45, whose daring, happy-go-lucky exploits as a World War II dive-bomber squadron commander made him a flying legend, earned him two citations for the Navy Cross; in a training-plane crash; near Corpus Christi, Texas.

Died. Blair Moody, 52, longtime Washington correspondent of the Detroit News, appointed directly from the press corps to serve (1951-52) as Democratic Senator from Michigan; of pneumonia; in Ann Arbor, Mich, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Albert S. (for Sidney) Camp, 61, longtime (1939-54) Democratic Congressman from Georgia; of a liver ailment; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. John Garnet Carter, 71, onetime real-estate promoter (Lookout Mountain's Rock City) and originator (1928) of the on-again, off-again national craze, miniature golf; of a heart ailment; in Chattanooga.

Died. Giulio Gelardi, 80, Italian-born onetime manager of some of the world's most famed international hotels (New York's Waldorf-Astoria, London's Claridge's and Savoy, Rome's Excelsior); of cancer; in London.

Died. William Lewis Moody Jr., 89 (no kin to ex-Senator Moody), reckoned one of the U.S.'s ten richest men (estimated total assets: $400 million) of pneumonia; in Galveston, Texas. Gracious, publicity-shy Financier Moody controlled vast tracts of Texas land (including Galveston Island, which flourished for years as the gambling mecca of the Southwest) and such miscellaneous enterprises as the $364 million American National Insurance Co.,33 hotels and tourist courts, two banks, both Galveston newspapers, eleven ranches.

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