MARRIED. Barry Commoner, 63, environmentalist, author and Citizens Party candidate for President of the U.S.; and Lisa Feiner, 35, a Madison, Wis., lawyer and former television reporter whom he met when she interviewed him for a story on nuclear power; he for the second time, she for the first; in Madison.

DIVORCED. Tuesday Weld, 37, perennial Hollywood starlet of the 1960s who survived to become a creditable actress (Play It as It Lays, Who'll Stop the Rain); and Dudley Moore, 45, diminutive comic actor who helped create the satirical revues Beyond the Fringe and Good Evening and pursued Bo Derek in "10 "; after five years of marriage, one son, Patrick, 4.

DIED. Gower Champion, 59, leading Broadway musical director and choreographer; of Waldenstroem's macroglobulinemia, a rare malignancy of the blood; in New York City (see THEATER).

DIED. Sam Levenson, 68, humorist and matzo-barrel philosopher, whose monologues and bestselling books celebrated the folklore of New York Jewry and gently spoofed the absurdities of modern family life; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. A teacher of high school Spanish for eleven years, Levenson amused his pupils by recounting tales of his poor but happy childhood and strict but loving parents. ("Our menu at mealtime offered two choices--take it or leave it.") After he turned his classroom routines into a nightclub act, the portly, bow-tied comedian was an instant hit on television and host of his own show in the 1950s. His storytelling often shaded into serious commentary on child rearing and modern morals: "It's not matriarchy we have to fear--it's kindergarchy, government of the children, by the children and for the children."

DIED. Lucious Christopher Bates, 79, a prominent black publisher who, with his wife Daisy (then president of the Arkansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), coached and supported nine black students in their historic 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.; following intestinal surgery; in Little Rock.

DIED. George R. Stewart, 85, prolific novelist and scholar of literature, American history, forestry and meteorology who received acclaim for his "weather novels" Storm and Fire; in San Francisco. A professor of English for 38 years at the University of California at Berkeley, Stewart battled the regents over the "nonCommunist loyalty oath" required of faculty in 1950, and later documented the experience in The Year of the Oath. Also recognized as an authority on onomastics, the science of names, he noted in American Place-Names that Deathball Rock, Ore., commemorated "an unsuccessful attempt to make biscuits."

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