Married. Bill Russell, 43, basketball star of the Boston Celtics who became the first black coach-general manager in pro basketball when he joined the Seattle SuperSonics; and Didi Anstett, 29, Miss U.S.A. of 1968; he for the second time, she for the first; in Seattle.

Marriage Revealed. Alan Jay Lerner, 58, Broadway lyricist laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); and Nina Bushkin, 27, daughter of Joey Bushkin, the jazz pianist; he for the sixth time, she for the first; on May 30 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Divorced. George Harrison, 33, shy, mystic Beatle; and Patti Boyd, 32, model and actress, who met George while filming A Hard Day's Night; after eleven years of marriage, two years of separation; in London.

Died. Dr. Robert Franklin Pitts, 68, physiologist who pioneered research in kidney function and disease; of a heart attack; in Live Oak, Fla. While chairman of Cornell University's physiology department, Pitts conducted studies that led to new medical routines of therapy and an understanding of diuretic drugs.

Died. Joe Musial, 72, cartoonist who pioneered the use of comic books as teaching aids and drew the Katzenjammer Kids for the past 25 years; after a long illness; in Manhasset, N.Y. Musial took over Rudolph Dirks' comic strip featuring the terrible Teutonic twins in 1952 and, as art director of King Features' comic-book division, was also a ghost artist for many other series.

Died. Sir John Masterman, 86, former vice chancellor of Oxford University who directed British--and later Allied--counterintelligence units during World War II; in Oxford. In his book The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masterman recounted how the Twenty Committee (from the Roman numeral XX, symbolizing double-cross) effectively "ran and controlled the German espionage system" by feeding agents carefully planned false information, e.g., that the 1944 Allied invasion would take place in Calais, not Normandy. After the war, Masterman returned to Oxford and until his retirement in 1961 served as provost of Worcester College.

Died. Ward Melville, 90, chairman of the board of the Melville Corp.; after a long illness; in Manhattan. Melville, who started out working for his father's shoe store at $8 a week, helped turn the business into a billion-dollar company by mass-producing low-priced shoes. He also founded the Miles and Thom McAn shoe chains.

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