Married. Barbara Hutton, 41, five & dime heiress; and Porfirio Rubirosa. 44, Dominican playboy-diplomat; she for the fifth time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL).

Married. Henry Miller, 62, onetime Left Bank expatriate turned California recluse, whose sex-obsessed novels (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer), after being banned in the U.S., became avant-garde favorites in France; and Evelyn Byrd McClure, 29, Hollywood artist-actress; each for the third time; in Carmel Highlands, Calif.

Married. William Christopher Handy, 80, Negro trumpeter, composer (St. Louis Blues, Beale Street Blues, Memphis Blues) turned Manhattan music publisher; and Irma Louise Logan, 51, his longtime secretary; both for the second time (his first wife died in 1937); in Yonkers, N.Y.

Died. Charles Emile ("Gus") Dorais, 62, longtime football coach at the University of Detroit (1925-42) and coach of the professional Detroit Lions (1943-47), who as quarterback for Notre Dame, with the late Knute Rockne at end, exploited the little-used forward pass to upset Army. 35-13, and revolutionize football (1913); after long illness; in Birmingham, Mich.

Died. Alfred Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, 63, British statesman-author; of a heart attack; aboard the French cruise ship Colombie, off Vigo, Spain. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he won the D.S.O. in World War I as an officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against Hitler. Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty by Neville Chamberlain, he resigned in protest against the 1938 Munich agreement with the Axis, told his colleagues: "I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter ... I can still walk about the world with my head erect." During World War II, he served briefly as Churchill's Minister of Information (1940-41), after France's liberation went to Paris as ambassador. Duff Cooper retired in 1947, wrote a candid autobiography, Old Men Forget, published two months before his death.

Died. Albert Plesman, 64, founder-president of K.L.M., Royal Dutch Airlines, who reorganized his company after World War II, boosted it to fourth place among the world's airlines; of an abdominal arterial hemorrhage; in The Hague.

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