Married. John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, 74, tenth Duke of Marlborough and cousin of the late Sir Winston; and Mrs. Laura Canfield, 56, granddaughter of the eleventh Earl of Wemyss :and March; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in London.

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Divorced. Lana Turner, 50, yesteryear's sweater girl; and Ronald Dante, 51, nightclub hypnotist who was Turner's seventh husband; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Died. Mahalia Jackson, 60, empress of gospel singers (see Music).

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Died. Gene Austin, 71, "granddaddy of all crooners," who sold more than 86 million records in the era of crank-up phonographs; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Austin began his career as an entertainer by pounding bawdyhouse pianos. After a stint in vaudeville, he moved to the recording studios of RCA Victor, where his drawling tenor made hits of tunes like How Come You Do Me Like You Do? and Ramona. His biggest success, My Blue Heaven (1927), became his theme song.

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Died. Erhard Milch, 79, protege of Hermann GOering who helped set up the Luftwaffe; in Lueneburg, West Germany. Milch organized flying schools and glider clubs during the period in which Germany was barred by treaty from having an air force. He also became managing director of Lufthansa during the '20s. GOering valued his talent and loyalty so highly that he arranged to have Milch's Jewish paternity officially denied (his mother was non-Jewish). During World War II, Milch was made Luftwaffe chief of staff, a cabinet member and head of aeronautics production before a policy dispute with Hitler forced him out of the government. Afterward, he served only seven years of a 15-year sentence for war crimes, survived to serve as an industrial consultant.

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Died. Carl T. Hayden, 94, the quiet, influential Arizonan whose 57 years in Congress set a record; in Mesa, Ariz. Hayden once remarked that his four-vote defeat in a college election caused him to run scared ever after. He became the state's first Congressman in 1912 and served eight terms in the House and seven more in the Senate before retiring in 1969. A Democrat who preferred cloakroom bargaining to Senate-floor oratory, Hayden became chairman of the Appropriations Committee and doggedly supported bills for Arizona land reclamation, road construction and power development.

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