Married. Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille LeSeuer), 47, durable (29 years) cinemactress (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Guitar); and Alfred N. (for Nu) Steele, 54, president of the Pepsi-Cola Company; she for the fourth time (her first and second: Cinemactors Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone), he for the third; in Las Vegas.

Divorced. Theodore Samuel (Ted) Williams, 36, Boston Red Sox slugger; by Doris Soule Williams, 34; after eleven years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami (see SPORT).

Died. Thomas William Warner Jr., 39, much-wed (four times) playboy heir (at age 16) to Borg-Warner and General Motors automotive fortunes; by accident (a 12-ft. fall on the grounds of his mother's mansion after a night of bottling); in Pasadena, Calif.

Died. George Herrick, 61, onetime big operator of New York City gambling houses who later fell on hard times, went to work selling hosiery; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Tommy Burns (real name:

Noah Brusso), 73, onetime (1906-08) heavyweight boxing champion of the world; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. The only Canadian and the shortest boxer (5 ft. 7 in., 179 Ibs.) ever to wear the heavyweight crown, Ontario-born Tommy was soundly beaten by Jack Johnson, fought only sporadically thereafter, became an ordained minister, once advised newlyweds: "The first few rounds are easy in prize fighting and in matrimony. It's staying power that counts."

Died. Ootah, eightyish, last of the four Eskimos who accompanied Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson on their history-making trek to the North Pole in 1909; of old age; near Thule, Greenland. A sturdy, 34-year-old hunter when he served with Peary, Ootah (also known as Odaq) was called "Peary's Iron Man," remarked of the journey back from the Pole: "The Devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily."

Died. General Charles Pelot Summerall, 88, onetime (1926-31) Army Chief of Staff, and president (1931-53) of The Citadel, a military college of South Carolina; in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. West Pointer Summerall. commissioned in 1892, commanded an artillery platoon in the storming of Peking in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Armed with his famed credo. "Artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he commanded the ist Division and later the V Army Corps in France in World War I, was credited with achieving artillery effects without precedent in U.S. military history.

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