Divorced. By Duncan Sandys, 52, Britain's Aviation Minister: Diana Churchill Sandys, 50, Sir Winston's eldest daughter; after 25 years of marriage, three children; in London.

Died. The Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, 45, strapping, red-haired pastor of Oklahoma City's egg-shaped First Christian Church, onetime chaplain of the Republican National Committee, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1950 and lost to Democrat Mike Monroney; when his twin-engined plane crashed into a milk truck at Camp Hill, Pa., also killing his wife Marylouise, 36, and their pilot.

Died. David Blair Owen, 51, onetime president of Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., who resigned in 1952 after a New York judge sent five Bradley basketball players to jail for throwing a game but fingered Owen as the true culprit for fostering "illegal recruiting, subsidization of athletes, evasion of scholastic standards, corruption of the athlete, the coach and the college official"; of a beating suffered when he was robbed and stripped in a cheap Washington, D.C. hotel.

Died. Peter Llewellyn Davies, 68, British book publisher, who as a child was seen romping in London's Kensington Gardens by Sir James Matthew Barrie, became the forever-young model for Barrie's Peter Pan as well as his longtime friend; in a London subway accident.

Died. Alfred Kohlberg, 73, Manhattan textile importer and rough-and-tumble fighter against Communism who. as onetime head of the American Jewish League Against Communism, came to be called by his enemies "the Jewish Joe McCarthy"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1944, as a member of the influential Institute of Pacific Relations, Kohlberg charged that I.P.R. was being "used by the Reds to orientate American Far Eastern policies toward Communist objectives." The I.P.R. denied Kohlberg's charges but, after they had been aired before the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee, dropped fellow travelers from its roster.

Died. Lowell Mellett, 76, longtime Scripps-Howard editor and executive, who turned to New Deal politics, headed President Roosevelt's National Emergency Council in 1937-38 and the Office of Government Reports in 1939-42, was one of F.D.R.'s so-called "secret six" braintrusters from 1940 to 1944; after a long illness; in Washington.

Died. Evelyn Emily Mary Fitzmaurice Cavendish, 89, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, mother-in-law of British Prime Minister Macmillan, and grandmother-in-law of the late Marchioness of Hartington, who was Kathleen Kennedy, sister of Senator John Kennedy; in London.

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