Divorced. By Jerome P. Cavanagh, 40, Detroit's personally controversial but politically effective mayor since 1962: Mary Helen Cavanagh, 38, onetime beauty queen; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, eight children; in Detroit. Mrs. Cavanagh charged the mayor with drunkenness, and punching her in the stomach while she was pregnant; he said she conspired with his political enemies and used "mule-skinners' language" in front of the children. The judge gave Cavanagh custody of four of the brood. Mrs. Cavanagh says she will appeal, charging that the judge knuckled under to "political pressure."

Divorced. Jane Russell, 47, bosomy star of the 1940s and '50s; and Bob Waterfield, 48, quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams from 1945 to 1952; on grounds of mental cruelty (Jane said he was "cold to everyone except my mother, and she was only around during Thanksgiving and Christmas"); after 25 years of marriage, three adopted children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Dr. Charles W. Mayo, 70, of the famed Mayo Clinic; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Rochester, Minn. Born into one of the nation's best-known medical families (his grandfather, uncle and father founded the clinic in 1889), Mayo earned recognition as an abdominal surgeon--and political note as well for exposing Communist brainwashing methods as a delegate to the U.N. during the Korean War.

Died. Herbert V. Kohler Sr., 76, crusty, conservative chairman of Kohler Co., the big plumbing-fixture firm that weathered the longest major strike in U.S. history; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Sheboygan, Wis. Struck by U.A.W. Local 833 in 1954 (among the issues: binding arbitration and a seniority rule in layoffs), Kohler held out for 81 years and kept his factory open with strikebreakers until the National Labor Relations Board finally forced him to the bargaining table.

Died. Angel Cardinal Herrera y Oria, 81, one of Spain's foremost champions of social reform; in Madrid. A former Madrid newspaperman who did not become a priest until he was 53, Herrera was among the few Spanish churchmen to speak out publicly against corruption and injustice under Franco, steadfastly campaigned for greater freedom and better living conditions for his countrymen. Within his own bishopric of Malaga, he fought illiteracy with the construction of some 250 new elementary schools in the last 20 years.

Died. Otto Hahn, 89, Nobel laureate who proved that the atom could be split (see SCIENCE).

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