Marriage Revealed. Armand G. Erpf, 70, senior partner in Wall Street's Loeb, Rhoades & Co.; and Sue Mortimore, thirtyish, an artist; he for the second time, she for the first; in Rome, three years and two children ago. Why the secrecy? "No one asked," said Erpf. But why should they? The Erpfs kept separate apartments.

Died. B. Brewster Jennings, 70, president and chief executive from 1944 to 1958 of Mobil Oil Corp.; after a short illness; in Manhattan. Born to wealth and oil (his maternal and paternal grandfathers were among John D. Rockefeller's early partners), Jennings spent his entire working life at Mobil. Under his command, what was once primarily a marketing outfit became one of the world's greatest oil producers, with fields and refineries on five continents bringing in revenues that came to $5.9 billion last year.

Died. Sir Ambrose Sherwill, 78, longtime bailiff (civil head) of the Channel island of Guernsey, which, with the isles of Jersey, Sark and Alderney, was the only bit of Britain occupied by the Nazis during World War II; in Guernsey. Guernsey was "taken" in 1940 by the crews of four transport planes. But Sherwill and the Guernsey folk made life miserable for the Germans, helping P.O.W.s to escape, and reporting every Nazi move to London.

Died. Marcel Duchamp, 81, France's Grand Dada of art, whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, made reviewers dizzy with swiveling patterns driven by electric motors and designed a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch. After ten years, Duchamp's energetic nihilism reached its logical conclusion--he retired from painting. But by then his rejection of everything that had gone before had paved the way for surrealism, op, pop and kinetic art.

Died. Francis Biddle, 82, Attorney General from 1941 to 1945 and U.S. judge at the 1945-46 Nurnberg war-crimes trials; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass. An able and wealthy lawyer who traced his ancestry to the nation's first Attorney General, Civil Libertarian Biddle often objected to the decisions of the times--as when thousands of Japanese nationals were interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor. He felt no qualms, however, in dealing with eight Nazi agents smuggled into the country in 1942, and demanded stiff sentences (six were executed). At Nurnberg, he staunchly defended the legality of the trials, noting that "criminal acts are committed by individuals, not by nations."

Died. Msgr. Romano Guardini, 83, leading Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher; of a heart attack; in Munich. Born in Italy, Guardini lived most of his life in Germany, where for almost half a century he was a center of Roman Catholic intellectualism, first at the University of Berlin, later at the Universities of Tubingen and Munich, lecturing and writing eloquently on such disparate subjects as atomic science and Sigmund Freud, Paul Klee's paintings and Communist dialectic. A friend once said: "Guardini is like a Renaissance humanist--he seems to have the key to everything."

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