Married. Gamble Benedict, 24, Remington typewriter heiress, whose endlessly publicized 1960 runaway marriage to onetime Chauffeur Andrei Porumbeanu was annulled last October; and Thomas Gallagher, 32, former New York Thruway motorcycle cop, now an $11,500-a-year State Police investigator; both for the second time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony (the church does not recognize either of their first marriages); in Clinton, N.Y.

Married. Jane Powell, 36, Hollywood's Baby Jane of the 1950s (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), now on the nightclub circuit; and James D. Fitzgerald, 33, her onetime business manager; she for the third time, he for the second; in Sydney, Australia, where she is on a singing tour.

Married. Kingsley Amis, 43, Britain's maturing, anti-Establishment novelist (One Fat Englishman), most recently turned student of 007 (The James Bond Dossier), whom he humorously and minutely examines from poison tip to blade-edged toe; and Elizabeth Jane Howard, 42, fellow novelist (The Sea Change); he for the second time, she for the third; in London.

Died. Robert Alexander ("Steve") Cochran, 48, Hollywood heavy (The Big Operator, The Deadly Companions), a brawny onetime shipyard worker who played movieland mobsters and occasional heroes, except for a surprising leap into Italian avant-garde as the lovesick mechanic in Antonioni's IlGrido; of pulmonary edema, aboard his 33-ft. ketch Rogue, while sailing the Pacific from Acapulco to Costa Rica with a crew of three Mexican women, who drifted helplessly for ten days after his death until they were rescued by a U.S. fishing boat off the coast of Guatemala.

Died. Robert Chester Ruark, 49, author and columnist, a North Carolina backwoods boy who began as a sportswriter for the Washington Daily News, in 1946 caught the eye of Scripps-Howard Boss Roy Howard and was given a daily (later thrice weekly) column eventually syndicated in 104 U.S. newspapers, in which he stated his tough-guy opinions on everything from women's fashions to modern art, reserving his most abrasive insights for Africa in two race-baiting bestsellers (Something of Value, Uhuru) about Kenya, from which he was then barred in 1962; of internal hemorrhages; in London.

Died. T. Ashton Thompson, 49, Democratic Congressman from Louisiana's 7th District (Lake Charles) since 1952, champion of wildlife conservation; of injuries sustained when he was struck by a swerving tractor-trailer while standing on a parking strip off a 4-lane highway talking to a patrolman who had stopped him for speeding; on Interstate 85, near Gastonia, N.C.

Died. Claude Thornhill, 55, pianist bandleader, whose sweet, glossy arrangements of jazz and popularized classics (Warsaw Concerto, Nutcracker Suite), as well as his own compositions (Snowfall), swung high in the big-band era from 1939 to 1947, thereafter maintained a respectable success at college proms and the few remaining big-time dance halls, such as Manhattan's Roseland, Atlantic City's Steel Pier; of a heart attack; in Caldwell, N.J.

Died. John V. Mara, 57, president of the National Football League's New York Giants founded in 1925 by his father Timothy, who inherited the team in 1930 and with his younger brother Wellington led it through the lean years of World War II and a costly 1946-49 fight against the upstart All-America Conference to the top of the heap with an unequaled 14 divisional and three world championships and an estimated value of $10 million; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, 60, cornet-playing jazzman and master of Dixieland, whose Five Pennies was one of the most popular white combos of the late 1920s, at times including such future stars as Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa, but was eclipsed in the 1930s by the big dance bands of Red's former pupils until 1944, when he managed a small comeback with Five new Pennies on the nightclub circuit; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas.

Died. Admiral Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, 82, British World War I naval hero and inventor of the retractable periscope, who in 1915 took submarine Ell through the Dardanelles minefields into the Sea of Marmara, where in 96 days he sank 96 Turkish ships, for which he got the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration; of a kidney disease; in Elgin, Scotland.

Died. Gertrude Clarke Whittall, 97, Washington patron of the arts who, after the death of her husband, wealthy Rug Manufacturer Matthew Whittall, in 1922, began the first of many endowments by presenting five priceless Stradivari instruments and Tourte bows to the Library of Congress, at the same time establishing a $1,225,000 Whittall Foundation to sponsor concerts (admission price: 25-c-) at which they would be played, and in later years a $644,000 Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund for readings and lectures; of complications following a hip injury; in Washington.

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