Married. Barbara Field Bliss, daughter of Publisher Marshall Field; and Lieut. Robert Boggs, U.S.N.R., medical officer of the U.S.S. Prairie State, training ship; she for the second time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Chronicler Edgar Ferdinand Lundberg, 39 (America's 60 Families); by Isabel Gary Lundberg, onetime editor of The Smart Set; in Bartow, Fla.

Died. Grant Wood, 50, famed painter of the U.S. Midwestern scene; of cancer of the liver; in Iowa City (see p. 65).

Died. Matthew A. Dunn, 55, blind, humanity-loving Congressman from Pennsylvania (1933-41); in Pittsburgh. He once offered a jobs-for-everybody proposal which called for an appropriation of $100,000,000,000.

Died. John ("Jack") Burke, 67, famed marathon fighter of the '90s; of injuries apparently suffered in traffic; in Plainfield, N.J. Burke and Andy Bowen fought the longest glove battle on record, in New Orleans in 1893: no rounds. The two battered each other for seven hours and 19 minutes to a draw.

Died. Alice Hegan Rice, 72, author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, wife of Poet Cale Young Rice; in Louisville, Ky. Published in 1901, the gently humorous story of a down-at-heels widow and her five children stayed among the leading--best-sellers for years afterward. It was Mrs. Rice's first novel. Dramatized, it became a longtime stock-company standby. The book was translated into half a dozen foreign languages.

Died. Marie Ritz, 75, operator of the Ritz Hotel in Paris for the last 40 years, widow of famed Founder Cesar Ritz, father of the 19 world-scattered Ritz luxury hotels; in Paris. She helped make the ritzy* Paris Ritz the best-known grand hotel to a generation of travelers.

Died. Epitacio Pessoa, 76, onetime President of Brazil (1919-22), justice of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague (1924-30); in Rio de Janeiro.

Died. William Francis Stevenson, 80, Congressman from South Carolina from 1917 to 1933; in Washington. As chairman of the House Printing Committee he once listed Fiorello H. LaGuardia as a resident of Brooklyn, apologized to him on the House floor, was soon buffeted by letters from injured Brooklynites.

* The adjective grew from the hotel's reputation. Recently, when Mme. Ritz was offered favors if she would keep open house for visiting Nazis, her answer was to confine Germans to one half, Parisians to the other. The Ritz Bar was on the Parisian side.

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