Married. Robert Shaw, 48, novelist (The Hiding Place), playwright (The Man in the Glass Booth) and actor of stage and screen, perhaps best known for his roistering portrayal of Quint, the professional shark killer in Jaws; and Virginia Jansen, 37, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Died. Meyer ("Mickey") Cohen, 62, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) onetime West Coast gang leader; of complications of stomach cancer; in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn-born boxer who was running his own mob in Cleveland at 19, Cohen went on to work in a Chicago gambling casino owned by the Capone syndicate, then turned to bookmaking in California. After Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was shot in 1947, Cohen became the high-living kingpin of Los Angeles gangdom. He was sentenced to prison twice, both times on charges of income tax evasion. Cohen was released in 1972, partially paralyzed as the result of being hit over the head with a piece of pipe by a fellow inmate at the Atlanta federal penitentiary.

Died. Lord Feather, 68, salty, aggressive general secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress (1969-73); of a stroke; in London. At 14, Victor Feather filled flour sacks in a grocery co-op to help support his family; at 15, he joined the shop assistants union and at 29 he became a TUC organizer in London. During his 37 years on the staff, Feather led some of the TUC's toughest negotiations. When Britain's Tory government in 1971 passed the Industrial Relations Act restricting union power, Feather made it largely inoperative by refusing to cooperate. A fighter but also a "fixer," he was a moderating force in dealing with the rising influence of left-wing leaders in the TUC.

Died. George Oliver Curme Jr., 87, pioneering industrial chemist; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. In 1914, Iowa-born Curme began synthesizing a wide variety of chemicals from hydrocarbons. The chemicals--which included industrial solvents, ethyl alcohol, acetylene for welding, ethylene glycol for antifreeze, and synthetic rubber--spawned entire new industries. In 1944 Union Carbide--which profitably developed his major discoveries--named him vice president in charge of chemical research.

Died. Rudolf Bultmann, 92, one of Europe's most influential Protestant theologians; in Marburg, Germany. The last survivor of a generation of giants that included Karl Earth and Paul Tillich, Bultmann sought a radical way to make Christianity meaningful to modern man. His seminal notion, "demythologizing," rejected any quest for the historical Jesus; events like the Resurrection, he said, were "myths" believable only in a nonscientific age. They thus detracted from the "kerygma" the existential moral truths that Jesus, and Christianity, represent.

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