Married. Frances Farmer, 43, onetime topnotch Hollywood leading lady (Come and Get It] who was committed to a mental hospital in 1943, is now making a comeback on TV; and Leland C. Mikesell, 53, West Coast radio-TV consultant; she for the third time, he for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. James Aloysius Finnegan, 51, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, manager of Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign; of pneumonia, complicated by a lung cancer; in Philadelphia.

Died. Francisco Duran-Reynals, 58, faculty member at Yale Medical School, one of the first cancer researchers to theorize that the disease may be caused by viruses; of cancer of the brain; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Herbert Fields, 60, who wrote the book for Broadway musicals ranging from Garrick Gaieties to Annie Get Your Gun; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Son of Slapstick Comedian Lew Fields (Weber & Fields), Herbert was the first librettist with the Rodgers & Hart team, later did such hits as DuBarry Was a Lady and Mexican Hayride with Cole Porter, collaborated on many shows (Up in Central Park, the forthcoming Redhead) with his sister Dorothy.

Died. Clyde Pangborn, 61, oldtime airman, who, with Hugh Herndon Jr., made the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean (1931), also flew and wing-walked for the famed Gates Flying Circus, ferried bombers and transports to England during World War II, demonstrated Designer Vincent J. Burnelli's Flying Wing; of a pulmonary infarction; in Manhattan. When Tokyo's daily Asahi offered $25,000 for the transpacific flight. Pangborn and partner took their Bellanca monoplane to Japan, ready to try. On arrival, they were clapped into jail as spies, for taking pictures. After a 21-day trial (total fine: $2,050), they took off. shed their landing gear for better flying. The 4,500-mile trip took nearly two days, ended with a dust-raising belly landing in Wenatchee, Wash.

Died. Leon C. Phillips, 67, onetime (1939-43) governor of Oklahoma; of a heart attack; in Okmulgee, Okla. A former University of Oklahoma footballer, 3OO-lb. Democrat Red Phi lips once called out the National Guard to stop federal (PWA) work on the Grand River Dam, eventually turned completely against his party and the New Deal.

Died. Charles H. Strub, 73, founder and developer of the Santa Anita race track, longtime (1917-38) president of baseball's San Francisco Seals; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Pioneer of the $100,000 handicap in the U.S., Strub introduced many improvements to American racing, including the photo finish, electric timing, saliva tests, and the "paid gate" (his theory: if a customer cannot pay admission charges, he has no business betting).

Died. William Christopher Handy, 84, trumpeter, composer of The St. Louis Blues, music publisher, autobiographer (Father of the Blues), who became a songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures.

Died. Alessandro Cardinal Verde, 93, oldest member of the Sacred College of Cardinals; in Rome. Remaining membership: 56 out of 70 authorized.

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