Married. Russell A. Firestone Jr., 41, polo-playing heir to the tire fortune; and Myrna Odell, 33, a onetime society writer, who met him in 1965 during an interview for the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post-Times; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Miami.

Divorced. Dr. Jonas Salk, 53, developer of the first widely used polio vaccine; by Donna Lindsay Salk, 51; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after 28 years of marriage, three children; in San Diego.

Died. Larry Gallo, 41, New York Mafia thug, whose insurrection against Brooklyn Boss Joe Profaci from 1959 to 1963 stirred one of the bloodiest (eleven dead) gang wars since Al Capone's day, ended only when Profaci died in 1962 and Mafia higher-ups split the rackets between the two gangs; of cancer; in Mineola, L.I.

Died. The Rev. J. Franklin Ewing, 62, Roman Catholic priest and noted anthropologist at Fordham University, who believed in Darwin's theory of evolution while also holding that God created the climate in which living creatures could evolve; after a long illness; in Peekskill, N.Y. Leader of several anthropological expeditions to the Middle East, he still said God created man, and "whether he used the method of evolution or created him from unorganized matter is not of primary importance."

Died. Daniel L. Marsh, 88, president of Boston University from 1926 to 1951, chancellor since 1951, and architect of B.U.'s development into a first-rank center of learning; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crusty, often controversial in matters not relating to education, Marsh was a fervent advocate of Prohibition, believed that because of TV "we are destined to have a nation of morons." There was no argument about the near miracle he worked at B.U., where he took a moldering collection of brownstones for 9,600 students in 1926 and built a multiversity that today boasts 23,000 students and 13 graduate schools.

Died. Sanford L. Cluett, 93, textile man, whose Sanforizing process (coined from his first name) thrust the world into the Non-Shrink Age; in Palm Beach, Fla. As a vice president of the family-founded Cluett, Peabody & Co. (Arrow shirts), Cluett in 1928 determined to find a way of counteracting the pull exerted by mill machines during weaving, which stretches fibers only to have them shrink back again after washing; his process which contracts and preshrinks the cloth, has been lauded as the most significant textile discovery since the advent of fast dyes.

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