Married. Harvey Gantt, 21, first Negro to crack South Carolina's white state colleges, after a federal court judge overruled his rejection by Clemson College in January 1963; and Lucinda Brawley, 18, first Negro girl at Clemson; in Hopkins, S.C.

Married. William G. Mennen Jr., 51, Soapy's cousin, second in command (after Older Brother George) of the family's shaving cream-and-lotion company, who is largely credited with giving Mennen its sweet smell of success; and Audrey Holzwarth Wardell, 42, Morristown, N.J., secretary; both for the second time; in San Francisco.

Divorced. By Arlene Dahl, 39, Hollywood's ever glowing redhead (Kisses for My President): Christian Holmes, 41, wealthy real estate speculator; after four years of marriage, one child; on grounds of mental cruelty (he preferred golf); in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Mary Pinchot Meyer, 43, Washington abstract artist and niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot; of bullet wounds in the head and chest inflicted by an unsuccessful robber, while she was taking a stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath near her Georgetown studio.

Died. Harry Hart ("Pat") Frank, 57, first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors, whose 1946 Mr. Adam, describing the plight of the only male on earth to survive sterilization after an accidental nuclear blast (the army has to shield him from hordes of would-be mothers), sold 2,000,000 copies, was soon followed by other atomic potboilers (Alas, Babylon, How to Survive the H-Bomb and Why); of acute inflammation of the pancreas; in Jacksonville.

Died. Games Slayter, 67, inventor of Fiberglas; of a heart attack; in Columbus. A recently retired vice president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Slayter developed a straw-thick glass fiber for air filters in 1931, after seven more years of research came up with the fine, flexible "glass wool" now used for everything from draperies to boat hulls, winning his company more than 130 lucrative patents.

Died. Cole Porter, 71, America's premier songwriter; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica (see Music).

Died. Pascal Covici, 75, John Steinbeck's editor at Viking Press, who helped with such novels as Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, "demanding of me," Steinbeck said, "more than I had, causing me to be more than I should have been without him"; of complications following intestinal surgery; in Manhattan.

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