Beatles' Ringo Wed Quietly In London

LONDON, Feb. 11 -- Mary Cox, an 18 year old hairdresser, and Richard Starkey, a 24 year old musician, were married at a London Registrar's Office today and a sigh could be heard throughout England.

Mr. Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr, is the oldest, smallest and most popular of the Beatles.

The wedding took place at 8:15 a.m. at Caxton Hall, Westminister. John Lennon described it in typically Beatle talk: "It was very early and we all felt a bit ill, except Ringo. He looked extremely well. He kept going because he was getting married. Ringo wore a lightish gray tweedy kind of suit with the pants sort of raised up in the front and the jacket sort of dropped down in the back. He had a white carnation and so did Brian Epstein. Nobody got us any. We were going to wear radishes, actually. Maureen (as Mary is known) had on an off-white suit of lacy wool and her hair was up and done in a sort of string bag at the back. It looked good, actually. She had orchids. Some fellow said 'are you Richard Starkey and are you Maureen Cox?' and they said yes and I clapped at the end. Nobody cried. We'd threatened Mrs. Starkey that if she did she wouldn't be one of the gang. Then we all signed the register and went off to breakfast."