Married. Diana Hopkins. 21. only daughter of the late adviser-confidant to F.D.R., Harry L. Hopkins; and Army 2nd Lieut. Allin Preston Baxter. 24: in Palisades, N.Y.

Divorced. Jack Webb. 33. deadpan star (Sergeant Friday) and director of radio and TV's even-paced crime show. Dragnet; by Cinemactress Julie London. 26 (The Red House); after six years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Joseph Burstyn, 53. U.S. importer-distributor of foreign films (Open City, Paisan, The Bicycle Thief), who fought a 1951 New York State ban on The Miracle and last year won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing it; of a coronary thrombosis.

Died. Commander James J. Hughes, 55, skipper of the famed Xavy gunboat Panay when she was sunk in an attack by Japanese bombers in China's Yangtze River in 1937; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Kim Sigler, 59. onetime Republican governor of Michigan (1947-48); when his private plane rammed a television tower and crashed; near Battle Creek, Mich.

Died. Eugene O'Neill. 65. American playwright (Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!); of bronchial pneumonia; in Boston (see THEATER).

Died. Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. 66, World Court justice, ex-delegate for India at the U.N., brother of onetime Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Benegal Rama Rau; of intestinal cancer; in Zurich, Switzerland.

Died. Henry Bernstein, 77. hot-tempered French dramatist (he fought twelve duels), best-known for his violently pessimistic plays dealing with thwarted passion (Le Secret, Melo, Espoir): after a brain tumor operation; in Paris.

Died. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Ernest William Barnes, 79, the Church of England's "bold, bad bishop" of Birmingham (until his retirement last May), who alarmed and angered his fellow churchmen for 29 years by publicly denouncing the doctrine of the virgin birth and the existence of Adam and Eve, advocating strict birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of "the unfit"; in Hurstpierpoint. England.

Died. Dr. Charles Frederick Menninger, 91, pioneer physician who founded the Menninger Clinic (now the famed Menninger Foundation) in Topeka. Kans. (1919), and with his two sons. Karl and William, developed it into one of the world's top-ranking centers of psychiatric research, treatment and training; after long illness; in Topeka.

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