Married. David Binney Putnam, 20, son of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, David Goes to Baffin Land, David Sails the Viking Trail); and Xilla Shiles of La Fayette, Ga.; in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Married. Sigvard Oscar Frederick, Duke of Uppland, 26, grandson of Sweden's King Gustaf; and Cinemactress Erika Patzek, 22; in London. Deprived of royal rights by marriage (TIME, March 5), the couple will be known as Mr. and Mrs. Sigvard Bernadotte.

Married. Mildred Harris Chaplin, one-time wife of Comedian Charles Chaplin; and William P. Fleckenstein, Fairibault, Minn, brewer, musical revue producer and onetime professional football teammate of Harold (''Red") Grange; in Asheville, N. C.

Married. Richard Southwell Windham Robert Wyndham-Quin. Viscount Adare, 40, eldest son of the Fifth Earl of Dunraven; and Nancy Yuille, Manhattan socialite; in Palm Beach.

Sued for Divorce. Joan London Mala-muth. daughter of the late Novelist Jack London; by Charles Malamuth, linguist, onetime University of California professor; in Los Angeles. Reasons: She read his mail, played jazz while he wrote "tragic scenes," deserted him.

Awarded. Notre Dame University's Laetare Medal, outstanding U. S. award to live, lay Catholics: to Mrs. Nicholas Frederic (Genevieve Garvan) Brady, philanthropist, vice chairman of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization. Last year's award: To Tenor John McCormack.

Birthdays. Onetime Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 93; Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, 67. Died. Colonel Gordon Johnston, 59, chief of staff of the Second Division, U. S. Army; after a fall from a polo pony; in San Antonio. "Most decorated man in the Army," he had every award the U. S. Army bestows,* seven foreign decorations, was a onetime aide to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and to General Leonard Wood.

Died. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Van Meter Jr., 61, of Lexington, Ky., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, inventor of many a surgical trick, after long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

Died. Richard D. Wyckoff, 64. stock market authority, founder and onetime editor of the Magazine of Wall Street, editor of Stock Market Technique; of heart disease; in Sacramento. Thrice married, Mr. Wyckoff charged in 1928 that his second wife, Cecelia G. Wyckoff, present publisher of the Magazine of Wall Street, had wrested control of it from him by "cajolery." In a subsequent separation agreement both received half a million dollars of the company's bonds.

Died. Dr. Allen Sinclair Will, 65, founder & director of Rutgers' Department of Journalism, onetime city editor of the Baltimore Sun; of cerebral em- bolism complicated by pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. John Campbell Gordon, 86, First Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, onetime Governor-General of Canada, twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; after a lingering illness; in Tarland, Aberdeen-shire, Scotland.

Died. Dr. Frederic Shepard Denni?. 83, surgeon, pathologist; of a heart attack: in Manhattan. Childhood friend and roommate at Yale of Johns Hopkins' William H. Welch, "Dean of U. S. medicine.1' the two studied & worked together 20 years. Dr. Dennis, a pupil of the late great Lord Lister, was famed as an early protagonist of antiseptic surgery in the U. S., was given $50.000 by Andrew Carnegie to found a pathological laboratory at New7 York University Medical College in 1884. In 1898 he became professor of clinical surgery at Cornell University Medical College, where he taught for twelve years.

*In order of importance: Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross. Distinguished Service Medal, Order of the Purple Heart, Silver Stars.

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