Married. Sharon Kay Ritchie, 19, prim, proper (no cheesecake) Miss America of 1956; and chubby-cheeked Don Ross Cherry, 32, amateur golfer (U.S. Walker Cup Team, 1953, 1955; Canadian Amateur champion, 1953) and nightclub crooner; in Denver.

Married. Dick Contino, 26, curly-haired accordion athlete who squeezed much fame, less fortune out of Horace Heidt's Youth Opportunity radio show (1947-49), eventually left Heidt after a contract squabble; and Leigh Snowden, 25, blonde cinema starlet (The Creature Walks Among Us); in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. Lita Grey Chaplin, 48, onetime 16-year-old leading lady (The Gold Rush) for Charles Chaplin, who became his 16-year-old shotgun bride (1924), spilled the premarital beans when she divorced him three years later; and Bank Clerk Pat Longo (real name: Patsy Tizzolongo), 30; she for the fourth time, he for the first, in Hollywood.

Presumed Dead. Thomas Everett (Tommy) Gastall, 23, three-sport star at Boston University (class of '55) and $40,000 bonus catcher (since June 1955) for the Baltimore Orioles, in the crash of his light plane during his second solo flight; in Chesapeake Bay.

Died. Dr. Walter Kolb, 54, bulbous (300 Ibs.), bald Oberbuergermeister of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (since 1946). A Social Democrat, he spent the later war years in concentration camps, was largely responsible for Frankfurt's rapid postwar regrowth as a financial, trading and communications center; of a heart attack; in Hoechst, Germany.

Died. Stanley St. Clair Sayres, 60, speed-happy retired Seattle car dealer, who shocked Detroiters in 1950 by entering his radically light, aerodynamic Slo-Mo-Shun IV, driven by Designer Ted Jones, in the Gold Cup unlimited hydroplane races, roared off with the trophy, won the cup the next four years, himself set a still unbroken record for propeller-driven craft (178.497 m.p.h. in 1952); of a heart attack; in Hunts Point, Wash.

Died. Joseph Adelard Godbout, 63, quiet, competent former (June-Aug. 1936, 1939-44) premier of Quebec, leader of Quebec's Liberal Party (1936-49) and senator from his province (since 1949); of a skull fracture after a fall in his home; in Frelighsburg, Que.

Died. Frederick Soddy, 79, top-ranking British physicist and chemist, who developed a theory (1913) to fit atoms that are identical chemically but differ in atomic weight, named such atoms "isotopes" (roughly: the same place), which later (1921) won for him the Nobel Prize in chemistry; in Brighton, England.

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