Married. Tyrone Power, 44, cinemactor (The Sun Also Rises); and Mrs. Deborah Montgomery Minardos, 26, sleek, brunette stepdaughter of a well-heeled Southern businessman; he for the third time (No. 1, French Actress Annabella; No. 2, International Playgirl Linda Christian), she for the second; in Tunica, Miss.

Divorced. By Lorraine Manville Baxter, 63, asbestos heiress, sister of Playboy Tommy Manville: Charles Baxter, 33, sometime TV actor; after three years of marriage; in Las Vegas, Nev. With only four divorces, Lorraine trails far behind brother Tommy (ten wives).

Died. Richard Skelton, 9, son of Comedian Red Skelton; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. After the boy's illness was discovered, Red Skelton took his family on a tour of Europe so Richard could see its lands and peoples before he died.

Died. Otto Abetz, 55, overbearing ambassador (1940-44) from Nazi Germany to the French puppet government at Vichy, onetime professed pacifist and champion of Franco-German solidarity, whose prewar activities in France, e.g., bribing writers and newsmen, helped reduce French preparedness during the gathering storm; by flames in the interior of his Volkswagen after a crash near Dusseldorf, which also killed his wife. Abetz was tried as a war criminal in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Freed in 1954, he avoided politics, worked as a freelance writer on economics.

Died. Norman Bel Geddes, 65, stage and industrial designer, father of Actress Barbara Bel Geddes; of a heart attack, while lunching at Manhattan's University Club. Irrepressibly creative Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from ashtrays to sets for the Metropolitan Opera, refrigerators, radios, root-beer bottles, magazine layouts, furniture, downtown Toledo, motor cars, gasoline stations, the interiors of Pan American Airways' China Clippers, Fifth Avenue store windows, a tent without poles for the Ringling Bros, circus. Designer of more than 50 theatrical productions (Ziegfeld Follies; Lady, Be Good; Fifty Million Frenchmen), he was also one of the first big-time talents to enter the field of industrial design, crowned that phase of his activities with the General Motors Futurama at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Died. Lucien Lelong, 68, Paris dress designer and parfumeur; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. As president of the fashion-ruling Chambre Syndicate de la Couture, Lelong persuaded the World War II Nazi invaders not to shift the fashion capital from Paris to Berlin because only in Paris could couture flourish, and German-dominated postwar Europe would need a flourishing couture to compete with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue.

Buttonhook, line and slinker, the Nazis bought the argument, let Paris' 60-odd dressmakers carry on business almost as usual. Among them: Lelong proteegees Balmain and Dior.

Died. Dr. Khan Sahib, 76, founder and leader of Pakistan's ruling Republican Party, onetime (1955-57) Chief Minister of the province of West Pakistan, a physician who became a member of the Indian National Congress, worked with Nehru and Gandhi for Indian independence; of three bayonet wounds delivered by an assassin; in Lahore, Pakistan.

Died. James Branch Cabell, 79, novelist (the Poictesme cycle, including Jur-gen), essayist (Quiet, Please), misanthrope to whom the human condition was "only the strivings of an ape reft of his tail and grown rusty at climbing . . ."; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Richmond. Turning in disdain from the real world of his own (and unnamed) Beat Generation, Cabell retreated into his own fantastic realm of medieval Poictesme (a mythical land in southern France). Few readers followed, until in 1919 Cabell sent the potbellied, middle-aged Jurgen back into time to make love to the most voluptuous prizes in history. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice effected a temporary ban, readers swarmed, and James Branch Cabell reached overnight the literary heights of the dawning '20s. No later book--he wrote more than 50 in all--approached Jurgen's popularity; the author's readership atrophied to near zero, but he declared that he was content to "sink, cackling thinly, into an amiable senescence."

Died. Joseph E. Davies, 81, international lawyer, diplomat, onetime (1936-38) U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., third husband (1935-55) of Post Toast-ies Heiress Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies; of bronchial pneumonia following a cerebral thrombosis; in Washington. His bestselling, be-kind-to-Communism Mission to Moscow (1942) did much to enlist U.S. sympathies for Russia during World War II,*when Davies was back in Washington as special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. As F.D.R.'s special envoy, he helped set up the Teheran Conference (1943) and, as Truman's envoy, the Potsdam Conference (1945). Born in Wisconsin, the career Washington lawyer first served the government under Woodrow Wilson, who took him to Versailles as an economic adviser.

*While living in Moscow, Ambassador and Mrs. Davies had already done much to win Soviet admiration. The Russians, who despised foreign left-wingers, respected the forthright capitalism Davies displayed when he showed up with 50 pieces of hand luggage, 30 trunks, 25 refrigerators to accommodate tons of frozen foods shipped in from the U.S., a valet, male and female personal secretaries, and a four-masted, oil-burning yacht moored at Leningrad.

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