Marriage Revealed. Artie Shaw, 42, bandleader and author ( The Trouble With Cinderella), whose former wives have included Cinemactresses Lana Turner (No. 3) and Ava Gardner (No. 5) and Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor (No. 6); and Cinemactress Doris (The Lost Weekend) Dowling, 29; he for the seventh time, she for the first; on June 19; in North Canaan, Conn.

Divorced. By Roberta Peters, 22, Metropolitan Opera soprano; Robert Merrill, 33, Met baritone; after two months, 26 days of marriage; in Juarez, Mexico.

Divorced. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 80, mathematician, philosopher, author, lecturer; by Countess Russell, the former Patricia Helen Spence, 41, his third wife and onetime secretary, who charged desertion; after 16 years of marriage, one son; in London.

Died. John Hall Paxton, 52, American consul at Isfahan, Iran, who in 1949 led a group of men, women & children in an epic, ten-week, 2,500-mile escape from Chinese Communists into India; of a coronary thrombosis, in Isfahan. Old China Hand Paxton, brought up in the Orient by missionary parents, was U.S. consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths of the sweltering Turfan Depression, and across the 18,300-ft. Karakoram Pass, until they made safety in a Kashmir village.

Died. Irving Wexler, 63, alias Waxey Gordon, onetime (1905) pickpocket who advanced through stickups, slugging, dope-peddling and murder into big-time racketeering; of a heart attack; on Alcatraz. During Prohibition, paunchy, bullet-headed Waxey muscled into a string of New Jersey breweries, cleaned up a profit of $4,555,537 in 1931-32, but paid only $2,615.76 in income tax (for which U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years in 1933). In the underworld of Al Capone, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz, Waxey luxuriated in a life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns, insisted that "the only two vices I've got are good clothes and a beautiful home." Out & in & out of jail since 1940, a terrified Waxey was nabbed last August in Manhattan with a pound ($200,000 worth) of heroin. "Kill me! Let me run and then shoot me!" he sobbed, on his knees. "This is the end of the line."

Died. Gene ("Old Tack") Howe, 66, publisher (1926-50) of the Amarillo Globe and News, whose daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was standard fare to thousands in the panhandle; by his own hand (gunshot); in Amarillo (see PRESS).

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