Married. Michael Chaplin, 18, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill, himself a Beatle-haired London drama student; and Patricia Johns, 25, London bit-part actress; in a civil ceremony; in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the legal age is 16, thus getting around Daddy's refusal to give permission. Mom did not seem to mind; she was only 18 when she married Charlie.

Married. Ringo Starr, 24, noisiest (drums) Beatle of them all, and Maureen Cox, 18, a Liverpool hairdresser, his home-town girl for the last three years; in a civil ceremony; in London. When they put their heads together, what with his moptop and her pageboy, it was a trifle difficult to tell which was which.

Divorced. Lauritz Melchior, 74, retired patriarch of Wagnerian tenors; by Mary Markham, 40, once his secretary, now a top Hollywood booking agent, whom he married last May, 15 months after the death of his second wife; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty; in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: $20,000 in cash, with another $80,000 to follow upon Melchior's death.

Died. Wayne Estes, 21, Utah State University basketball star, this season's second highest college scorer (just behind Miami's Rick Barry) with an average 33.7 points per game, a 6-ft. 6-in. senior who in his last game, a 91-62 win over Denver, netted 48 points to achieve his goal of scoring 2,000 points (he got 2,001); of electrocution two hours later when he stopped to help at an auto accident, bumped his head into a high-voltage wire dangling 6 ft. 5 in. from the ground; in Logan, Utah.

Died. Augusto Frederico Schmidt, 58, Brazilian poet, politician and entrepreneur, a smalltime merchant's son who wormed his way into Rio society with critically acclaimed verse, through his contacts built up a huge business complex (15 supermarkets in Rio alone), in the 1950s became President Juscelino Kubitschek's top speech writer and the brains behind his "Operation Pan America," forerunner of the Alianza; of a heart attack; in Rio.

Died. William Batt, 79, longtime (1923-50) president of Philadelphia's S.K.F. ball-bearing empire, who as a National Defense adviser in 1940 blew the whistle on U.S. industry's initial "business as usual" policy, snorting "you can't stop a fleet of tanks with a row of electric ice boxes," later as deputy commissioner of the War Production Board under Donald Nelson swiftly commandeered the essential raw materials needed to get history's biggest arms buildup under way in quick time; of a stroke; in Delray Beach, Fla.

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