MARRIED. Steven Ross, 55, high-wattage chairman of Warner Communications and, by some counts, the nation's best-paid corporate boss, with a $22.5 million package last year; and Film Producer Courtney Sale, 34; he for the third time, she for the first; in New York City. A galaxy of stellar friends--including Gary Grant, Pele, Steven Spielberg and the feuding Barbara Walters and Frank Sinatra--came out to twinkle at the newlyweds.

DIED. Howard Sackler, 52, writer-director whose play The Great White Hope, based on the life of black Boxer Jack Johnson, won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Ibiza, Spain. In his historical dramas, Sackler fashioned grand canvases on which self-determined men clashed against their environment. He was also a poet, screenwriter (who contributed to Jaws, then wrote Jaws 2), and director for Caedmon Records, responsible for putting the words of such writers as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and James Joyce onto vinyl.

DIED. Craig Hosmer, 67, querulous, staunchly conservative California Congressman from 1952 to 1974, who was among the nation's most outspoken, knowledgeable supporters of nuclear energy, first in Congress and later as a Washington lobbyist for the American Nuclear Energy Council; of a heart at tack; on a cruise ship off California en route to Mexico.

DIED. Virginia Fox Zanuck, 83, once Buster Keaton's leading lady, Mack Sennett's tiniest bathing beauty, and in 1924 Movie Tycoon Darryl F. Zanuck's storybook bride (although they did not live happily ever after); of a lung infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. The petite (4 ft. 9 in.) Virginia Fox gave up her acting career when she met Zanuck, then a struggling scriptwriter, on a blind date. A renowned Hollywood hostess, she zealously sang his praises for years, but the marriage was later marred by Darryl's persistent extramarital affairs and by much publicized family power struggles in the 20th Century-Fox boardroom.

DIED. Clinton T. Duffy, 84, warden of California's San Quentin prison from 1940 to 1952, whose humanitarian reforms inspired warm tributes from many of his inmates as well as imitation by other penologists; of a stroke; in Walnut Creek, Calif. Born and raised within San Quentin's gates as the son of a guard, Duffy took over "Q" after five riot-filled years. He abolished airless, dungeon-like cells and physical punishments, fired guards for cruelty, and introduced such unheard-of civilities as a night school, a cafeteria and an inmate-staffed newspaper. The author of three semi-autobiographical books and the inspiration for a movie (Duffy of San Quentin), he campaigned ceaselessly against capital punishment, after presiding over 90 executions. "The death penalty," he insisted, "never deterred murder before and never will."

DIED. Anna Freud, 86, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, whose theories advanced the work of her famous father Sigmund; in London. She opposed those who advocated the analysis of pre-verbal children and emphasized the purposeful care of parents and teachers. Applying in practice what she asserted on paper (in eight eloquent volumes), the self-effacing Freud established the first day nursery in Vienna and trained a generation of followers at the celebrated Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in England. She habitually shunned publicity and deferred to the parent whom she nursed in life and steadfastly defended in death. "I didn't go to college," she once remarked, "but I had a wonderful father."

DIED. Edith H. Quimby, 91, biophysicist whose research helped to pinpoint the optimal dosage of radiation for various medical purposes, particularly its use in cancer therapy; in New York City. Part of the atom bomb-building Manhattan Project during World War II, she was nonetheless a Cassandra who warned about the dangers of radiation as early as the 1920s.

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