Married. Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, 64, editor of the Christian Science Monitor from 1945 to 1964 and its present editor in chief; and Patience Mary Daltry, 40, his British-born assistant book editor; he for the second time (his wife of 37 years died last August), she for the first; in Boston.

Died. Albion Harman, 52, "King" of Lilliputian (1.6 sq. mi., pop. 48) Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel; of a heart attack; in Barnstaple, England. For 800 years, the monarchs of Lundy (the island was first given to a nobleman by King Stephen in the 12th century; more recently, whoever owned the land held the title) battled mainland policies, minted the puffin, worth 1.9-c-, which was outlawed in 1931 when it ran afoul of British currency laws. Harman, whose father bought the island in 1925 for $80,000, rebuffed the mother country's efforts to incorporate the taxfree, school-less, policemanless haven. Harman's son, John, succeeds to the "throne."

Died. Ziggy Elman, 54, self-taught trumpeter who kept the nation jumping during the swing era; in Los Angeles. Born Harry Finkelman, he changed his name after he signed with Benny Goodman in 1936, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940, and after the war formed his own group. His signature tune, And the Angels Sing, which he adapted from a Jewish wedding dance, was the best-known piece in a musical bag filled with inventiveness.

Died. Russell V. Downing, 67, president and director from 1952-66 of New York's Radio City Music Hall, world's largest indoor movie theater (6,200 seats); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the 36 years of its existence, Downing was proud to point out, the Music Hall not only kept to the "family movie" formula, but attracted more than 200 million paying customers at a rate of 6,000,000 a year--more than the annual number of visitors to the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and United Nations combined.

Died. James M. Langley, 73, former Ambassador to Pakistan, publisher of the Concord (N.H.) Daily Monitor and negotiator (with Filipino Senator Jose P. Laurel) of the 1954 Laurel-Langley trade agreements, which virtually eliminated quotas on Philippine goods entering the U.S.; of a stroke; in Concord.

Died. Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 83, the harsh-handed Wehrmacht general who led the invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the military machine that in the next five years ruthlessly ground 10,000 Norwegians into oblivion; of a heart attack; in Holzminden, West Germany. Even in the heyday of the German blitzkrieg, Von Falkenhorst seemed in a hurry: his troops and planes crushed Norway in just 23 days, and thereafter he used firing squads against civilians and prisoners of war. For these acts he was at first condemned to death by a British military court and later given a 20-year sentence.

Died. Bertha Spafford Vester, 90, Jerusalem's Florence Nightingale, who cared for thousands of Christians, Moslems and Jews under four flags (Turkish, British, Jordanian and Israeli); in Jerusalem. Called "Ummuna" (mother of us all) by her Arab friends, the ex-Chicagoan (who moved to the Holy City in 1881 with her parents) treated both British and Turkish soldiers wounded in the city during World War I, Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 war. Her Spafford Memorial Children's Hospital, founded in 1925, is now --with its infant-welfare center and 60-bed clinic--one of the best pediatric clinics in the Arab Middle East. Mrs. Vester, herself a Presbyterian, capped a distinguished career in 1963 by obtaining enough polio vaccine from the U.S. to inoculate 300,000 Jordanian children.

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