SEEKING DIVORCE. Luci Johnson Nugent, 31, younger daughter of late President Lyndon B. Johnson; from Patrick Nugent, 35, after twelve years of marriage, one son and three daughters; in Austin, Texas. The couple have been separated about a year; last November, Nugent quit his job as general manager of the Johnson family-owned radio station, KLBJ.

ILL. John Wayne, 71, the legendary "Duke" of Hollywood filmdom; with cancer; in Los Angeles. In a 9 1/2-hour operation, Wayne's stomach was removed, but laboratory tests showed that the malignancy had spread to his gastric lymph nodes. The patient, whose cancerous left lung was removed in 1964, accepted the news with true grit. "I've licked the Big P:before," he said. "And I'll lick it again."

DIED. Andre Laguerre, 63, bold, stimulating managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED for 14 years (1960-74); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The London-born son of a French diplomat, Laguerre grew up in San Francisco, was drafted into the French army during World War II at the age of 24, was among the last soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk and served as General Charles de Gaulle's press attache before joining TIME in 1946 as a foreign correspondent. In 1951 he worked on the personal staff of Editor in Chief Henry Luce. Five years later Laguerre, who was then TIME'S London bureau chief (and the magazine's ranking expert on European politics), was summoned to New York by Luce for a surprising assignment: to be an assistant managing editor of the fledgling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. He became its second managing editor four years later. Outwardly brusque but actually shy, Laguerre was a connoisseur of cigars, race horses, the St. Louis Cardinals and journalistic prose that met his own exacting, cant-free standards. He turned the struggling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED into a solid financial success by restyling its format, pioneering the use of extensive news color photography and developing a staff of diverse, talented writers. After serving longer than any other managing editor of a Time Inc. publication, Laguerre left SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1974; a year later he helped found Classic, the Magazine about Horses & Sport, and was its editor and publisher until he retired in December.

DIED. Marjorie Lawrence, 71, Australian-born soprano who resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges.

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