Married. Bill Harrah, 58, Nevada gambling chieftain (Harrah's Clubs, Rsno and Lake Tahoe), who was the state's largest casino operator until Howard Hughes decided to buy in; and Mary Burger, 30, physical culturist; he for the fourth time (his four-month marriage to Singer Bobbie Gentry ended in divorce in April), she for the first; in a Baptist ceremony in Reno.

Died. Dr. Stuart Brinkley Jr., 54, physicist and pioneering researcher into the characteristics of explosives; of a heart attack; in South Bristol, Maine. Though he lost both hands in a lab explosion while a student at Yale, Brinkley did not let the tragedy hamper his career: he learned to use artificial hands, experimented without letup. His treatise on blast wave theory, written with Cornell Professor John Kirkwood, is a classic in its field.

Died. Colonel George J. McNally, 64, chief of the White House communications system from 1946 to 1965, who kept four Presidents in constant touch with Washington, no matter where in the world they happened to be--even if that meant installing a telephone in the Taj Mahal, as he did when Eisenhower visited in 1959; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Jack Fishberg, 66, violinist for 44 years with the New York Philharmonic and its predecessors; in London. Part of a remarkable family that at one time counted six members in the Philharmonic, Fishberg played for all the great conductors, and rated Toscanini the greatest of them all--though the orchestra did have to pull even him out of the soup. "He once got mixed up in Daphnis and Chloe," said Fishberg. "We kept on playing. We knew the score."

Died. Joe Lapchick, 70, basketball great, both as a player and a coach; of a heart attack; in Monticello, N.Y. Tall for his time at 6 ft. 5 in., Lapchick started with the Original Celtics during the 1920s, helped them to so many lopsided victories that the American Basketball League finally ordered them to disband. But it was as a coach that he contributed most to the game. Kind, almost fatherly with his players --and a nervous wreck when he watched them in action--Lapchick brought New York's St. John's University to national prominence in the '30s and '40s, then in the 1950s made championship contenders out of the mediocre professional New York Knickerbockers. He ended with a crescendo as he began, returning to St. John's in 1956 and rebuilding until 1964-65, his last season before retiring. That year St. John's won both the Holiday Festival and the National Invitation Tournament.

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