Birthday. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, 75; oldest member of the Cabinet (next oldest: Cordell Hull, 70; Frank Knox, Jesse Jones and Harold Ickes, all 68). He spent the day hard at work in Washington, where he had been Secretary of War under Taft, 1911-13; Secretary of State under Hoover, 1929-33.

Married. Mildred King, youngest of the six daughters of Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet; and Army Air Forces Captain James Oliver McReynolds, son of a Los Angeles doctor; in Washington. She is the fifth of the Admiral's daughters to marry.

Married. French Cinemactress Simone Roussel ("Michele Morgan"), 22; and Cinemactor Gerard William Marshall, 25; in Hollywood.

Married. Sally McAdoo, 22, granddaughter of the late William Gibbs McAdoo, President Wilson's wartime Secretary of the Treasury; and Naval Reserve Lieut, (j.g.) Peter Meldrim Coy, 22, son of the late great Yale fullback Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy (onetime husband of the late great Actress Jeanne Eagels); in Worthington Valley, Md.

Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican charge d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic.

Sued for Divorce. By George Edward Hurrell, Hollywood's No. 1 Oomphotographer; Katherine Cuddy Hurrell; in Los Angeles.

Sued for Divorce. Joe Yule Jr. ("Micky Rooney"), 21, veteran cine juvenile; by Ava Gardner, 19-year-old Hollywood newcomer from North Carolina; after eight months of marriage; in Los Angeles. "I just wasn't happy married to him," she explained. He said nothing. She said he earned $5,000 a week, asked a share in joint property she estimated at $200,000, plus "reasonable alimony."

Re-Divorced. Actress Katharine Hepburn, 33; by Broker Ogden Ludlow of Alexandria, Va.; in Hartford, Conn. Throughout their six-year marriage, ended by Miss Hepburn in a Mexican divorce in 1934, Ludlow stayed so far in the background that he was something of a mystery man. Main known fact: Miss Hepburn got him to revise his name down to Ogden Ludlow from Ludlow Ogden Smith. Concluding, after eight years, that the Mexican divorce might not be legal, Ludlow got another last week to make sure.

Died. Colonel William C. Ocker, 66, "father of blind flying"; in Washington. He early noted that pilots grew accustomed to flying by "feel" and then tended to ignore their instruments. His research led the Army to require blind-flying training for every pilot. He invented the widely used "black box" for ground training--students sat on a swivel chair, peered inside a box at an instrument panel, guided their "plane" without seeing their surroundings.

Died. Conde Nast, 68; of a heart attack ; in his Park Avenue penthouse apartment in Manhattan (see p. 50).

Died. Gabriel Terra, 69, burly ex-President-dictator of Uruguay (1931-38); in Montevideo. Onetime schoolteacher, journalist, longtime politician, he engineered a quick coup d'etat in 1933, thereafter ruled by provisional decree. Surviving a revolution against him and a bullet in the shoulder, he turned the Presidency over to brother-in-law Alfredo Baldomir in 1938, next year returned from an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy beating the drum for Fascismo.

Died. Cecilia Beaux, 79, long one of the two most famed U.S. women painters (the other: the late Mary Cassatt); in Gloucester, Mass. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, she won artistic fame by the age of 22, thereafter never starved in a garret, never was the center of the violent controversies that mark many painters' salad days. As a portraitist, she treated her subjects kindly, painted much like John Singer Sargent, won praise for her sense of design and technical dexterity as well as insight. She once remarked that great painting required "a certain objectivity which is rare in women," but her credo was: "Success is sexless."

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