Married. Roberta Peters, 21, Bronx-born Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Robert Merrill, 33, Brooklyn-born Met baritone; in Manhattan.

Died. Alvin Nugent ("Bo") McMillin, 53, All-America backfield man and for 14 years coach at the University of Indiana; of a heart attack induced by cancer; in Bloomington, Ind. Texas-born "Bo" won fame in 1921 as quarterback of little Centre College's "Praying Colonels." In 1945, he coached his "pore little boys" at Indiana to their only Western Big Ten football championship.

Died. Dr. Paul Klapper, 66, president emeritus of New York City's municipal Queens College, since 1951 educational consultant to the newly formed Fund for the Advancement of Education of the Ford Foundation; of a heart ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Rumanian-born Dr. Klapper campaigned tirelessly to 1) raise teachers' pay, 2) give them the dignity he felt the profession deserved.

Died. Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, 67,chairman of the British Iron and Steel Federation, shrewd, Scottish-born industrialist who was Winston Churchill's Minister of Supply throughout most of World War II; of heart disease; in London.

Died. Harry Aaron Cronk, 73, retired chairman of the Farm Products Division of the Borden Co.; after a long illness; in Neptune, N.J. In 1935, Cronk pleased millions of light sleepers when he introduced rubber tires and rubberized horseshoes for milk-delivery wagons.

Died. Cyril Rudolph Jarre, 74, Roman Catholic Archbishop (since 1929) of Tsi-nan, Shantung Province, China; of pleurisy and bronchial complications; in Tsinan four weeks ago. The Communists jailed German-born Archbishop Jarre nine months ago "for sabotaging the church-reform movement," refused his request for the church's last rites.

Died. Francis Charles MacDonald, 77, poet, traveler, professor emeritus (since 1936) of Princeton University; after a long illness; in White Plains, N.Y. In 1905 Woodrow Wilson made him one of the first instructors in the now famed preceptorial system. Known as "Mr. Mac" to his undergraduate friends, he befriended and spurred countless Princetonians. He liked intimate poetry readings in his rooms, hated formal lectures ("To do the same thing twice a week was horrible"), and never qualified for his profession's union card, the Ph.D. An old bachelor who loved gossip, for years he kept an intimate diary of Princeton goings-on, one day in a fit of depression destroyed it. He is remembered in a special poetry room in Princeton's new Firestone Memorial Library, given anonymously by "a grateful advisee of Mr. Mac's."

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