Married. Cinemactress Hedy (Ecstasy, Algiers) Lamarr, 36; and Ernest ("Ted") Stauffer, 42, Austrian-born Acapulco (Mex.) nightclub owner; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25; by L. Ron (Dianetics) Hubbard, 40, science fictioneer turned mental healer; after five years of marriage, one daughter; in Wichita, Kans.

Divorced. Comedian Charles Winninger, 67, "Cap'n Andy" of the first Broadway and Hollywood Show Boat; by onetime Musical Comedy Star Blanche (Rings on My Fingers and Bells on My Toes) Ring Winninger, 74, who charged that he deserted her 23 years ago; after 39 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Piotr Andreyevich Pavlenko, 52, "most popular Soviet novelist," who never missed a Kremlin cue, thrice won the Stalin Prize (for his screen scenarios, Alexander Nevsky and The Vow, his 1947 novel, Happiness); of undisclosed causes; in Moscow.

Died. Joseph Benedict Chifley, 65, Australian blacksmith's son who developed a knack for finance, became the Commonwealth's World War II Treasurer, its Labor Prime Minister from 1945 to 1949; of a heart attack; in Canberra.

Died. Thomas Alan Goldsborough, 73, longtime (1921-39) Maryland Congressman, since 1939 a federal judge, who twice (in 1946 and 1948) fined John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for breaking antistrike injunctions ("a threat to democratic government . . . evil, demoniac, monstrous"); of a heart attack while celebrating his 42nd wedding anniversary; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Dana Wallace, 75, famed, criminal lawyer who made his most brilliant (but unsuccessful) defense in the celebrated Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray murder trial in 1927; of pleurisy; in Bay Shore, N.Y. His most dramatic jury-swaying trick: whipping off his spectacles (fitted with plain glass) at the height of a speech, smashing them "by accident" on the jury-box railing, brushing aside the fragments to let the jurors know that nothing mattered except his words.

Died. Bishop George Allen Beecher, 83, senior member of the House of Bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church and pioneer preacher of the old West; after long illness; in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He went to Nebraska in 1882, roved a vast territory in a pony cart, bivouacking at night on the open prairie, became a friend of Sitting Bull, toured Europe with Colonel William ("Buffalo Bill") Cody's Wild West show.

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