Married. Judith Fisher, 22, granddaughter of a founder of Fisher Body Co., now a GM division; and Jack F. Chrysler Jr., 21, grandson of Chrysler Corp.'s founder; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia.

Died. Richard H. Amberg, 55, publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a Harvard-educated businessman-journalist who went to the Globe when Sam Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955, rejuvenated the paper's editorials, concentrated on local coverage, civic progress and a personal membership in virtually every organization in town, all of which lifted circulation (now 315,000 daily) to within hailing distance of the international-minded Post-Dispatch; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Use Koch, 61, "bitch of Buchenwald," wife of the Nazi extermination camp's commandant, who was just as bestial as the men around her; by her own hand (hanging); in Aichach women's prison, Upper Bavaria, where she was serving a life sentence.

Died. James P. Finnegan, 66, one-time (1944-51) collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and a central figure in the Truman Administration scandals, the first of some 30 tax officials to resign during the 1951 congressional probe that uncovered illegal payoffs in many IRS offices, was convicted in 1952 of taking money from two firms with cases before the Government, serving 18 months of a two-year term for misconduct in office; of a heart ailment; in Webster Groves, Mo.

Died. Harry Elmer Humphreys Jr., 66, president (1949-57) and chairman (1951-65) of Uniroyal Inc., formerly U.S. Rubber Co., third largest U.S. rubber producer, who rose from secretary of Christiana Securities, the Du Pont family holding company, to head the Du Pont-controlled rubber firm, where he overcame a late start in postwar expansion and more than doubled sales (to $1.2 billion) before retiring; of a heart ailment; in White Plains, N.Y.

Died. Ernest Henderson, 70, co-founder and for 30 years boss of Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939--including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers 153 in the U.S. and abroad.

Died. Francis D. Ouimet, 74, earliest of the great U.S. golfers, who in 1913 at the Brookline, Mass., Country Club, became the first amateur to win the U.S. Open by outshooting British Pro Stars Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, went on to win the U.S. Amateur championship twice (1914 and 1931, by which time he was a prosperous stockbroker), and in 1951 received the ultimate accolade as the first non-Briton ever to be named captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland, where the sport was born; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass.

Died. Siegfried Sassoon, 80, British poet and author, scion of a wealthy London family, who won the Military Cross for valor in World War I, while at the same time composing savage verses on combat horrors ("Do you remember the stretcher cases lurching back / With dying eyes and lolling heads") that won him fame at home, later retired to his country hermitage where he rode, hunted, and wrote three volumes of fictionalized autobiography, The Memoirs of George Sherston; of cancer; near Warminster, England.

Died. Vice Admiral John Franklin Shafroth, 80, commander of the U.S. task force that shelled the Japanese homeland in the closing days of World War II, leading an eight-ship bombardment squadron to the island of Honshu on July 14, 1945, then ranging up and down the coast destroying military targets as an indication of Japan's helplessness in the face of U.S. might; of a stroke; in Westerly, R.I.

Died. William Francis Gibbs, 81, foremost U.S. naval architect; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Another of Harvard's fairer sons, Gibbs (TIME cover, Sept. 28, 1942) founded his design firm, now Gibbs & Cox, Inc., in 1922, and over the years was responsible for the design of nearly 7,000 vessels, more than 5,000 of them in World War II, everything from LST tank landing ships to the 10,500-ton cruiser Atlanta. His pride was a peacetime beauty, the 53,329-ton superliner United States, which in 1952 on her maiden voyage snatched the blue ribbon from Britain's Queen Mary, by crossing the Atlantic at an average speed of 35.59 knots, a record she still holds.

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