Married. Rudolf Friml, 67, Bohemian-born composer of schmalzy light operas (The Vagabond King, Rose Marie, The Firefly); and Kay Ling, 39, his Chinese-American secretary; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Francisco.

Divorced. Clark Gable, cinemactor, 50; by his fourth wife, British-born Sylvia Gable, 41, blonde onetime chorus girl, onetime Lady Ashley; after two years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. She testified that Gable told her: "I don't wish to be married to you or anyone else."

Divorced. By Xavier Cugat, 51, Spanish-born rumba maestro: Bandleader Lorraine Allen Cugat, 29; after five years of marriage, two years of court wrangles (she got a divorce last January in Santa Monica, Calif., which won't be final for a year), no children; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Sir Stafford ("Old Austerity") Cripps, Britain's vegetarian, Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (until October 1950) under former Prime Minister Clement Attlee; after long illness, three days before his 63rd birthday; in Zurich, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Victor Mikhailovich Chernov, 78, president of Russia's freely elected Constituent Assembly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Patriarch of Russian emigres in the U.S., bearded, silver-maned Chernov helped found the Social Revolutionary Party in 1900, became, for a few momentous weeks in 1917, Minister of Agriculture under Kerensky. He was elected president of the Assembly, which Lenin's soldiers dispersed on Jan. 18, 1918 after one all-night meeting. Chernov was driven into hiding, exile and a lifelong struggle against the Bolshevik dictatorship.

Died. Dr. Julien Besangon, 90, celebrated French specialist in longevity, who attributed his own long life to "wine, women, and tobacco"; of a heart attack; in the Paris apartment of his longtime friend, Helene Oliveires, 51, whom he once described as "a woman who asks no questions, and knows how to dress and please a man."

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