Milestones

Married. Vivien Leigh, 26, cinemactress; and Laurence Olivier, 33, cinemactor; in Santa Barbara, Calif.; four days after British Barrister Herbert Leigh Hoi-man's divorce from Miss Leigh became final, 25 days after British Actress Jill Esmond obtained an absolute decree from Olivier.

Died. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 71, for 27 years (1908-35) the beautifully bearded, autocratic, penny-pinching, respected artistic director and impresario of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera; at Ferrara, Italy.

Died. Lillian D. Wald, 73, famed founder of New York City's Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service; after a long illness; in Westport, Conn. Born of a well-to-do German-Jewish family, Nurse Wald spent most of her life in Manhattan's lower East Side, raised fabulous sums to improve its lot. A militant liberal, she supported women's suffrage, labor movements, pacifism during World War I, Al Smith in 1928, Roosevelt in 1936.

Died. George N. Seger, 74, dean of New Jersey Congressmen (nine terms); of heart disease; in Washington.

Died. David Franklin Houston, 74, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture (1913-1920) and Secretary of the Treasury (1920-21), chairman of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.; in Manhattan.

Died. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., 85, onetime U. S. Senator from Oregon (1907-13), "first man elected to the Senate by popular vote" when the Oregon legislature, anticipating the 17th Amendment (1913) providing for direct election of Senators, agreed to be bound by the election returns; after breaking his hip in a fall; in Washington.

Died. Sir Joseph John ("J. J.") Thomson, 83, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), Nobel Prizewinning (1906) physicist and author; in Cambridge, England. Small, easygoing Sir Joseph helped bridge the gap between the old & new physics by establishing the electron theory. Before his discoveries, atoms were considered indivisible; Thomson and colleagues figured out that each atom consists of a positively-charged nucleus surrounded by negatively-charged electrons.

Died. John Patterson Green, 95, Negro lawyer born in slavery, lifelong friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr., first Negro ever elected to a judicial office (justice of the peace) in a northern State; of injuries sustained in a Labor Day motor accident; in Cleveland. In 1887 Lawyer Green promoted the idea of a legal holiday for labor. Said he last week to his wife: "I hope I can live to be 97, like my good friend, John D."

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