Married. Robert Motherwell, 43, and Helen Frankenthaler, 29, both abstract expressionist painters; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan. The phrase Je t'aime was featured in the titles of several of the groom's most recently exhibited canvases; e.g., in last year's Whitney annual his entry was called (in translation): I Love You, No. 11-A.

Divorced. By Esther Williams, 35, cinemermaid: Ben Gage, 42, manufacturer, onetime radio actor-announcer; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Alimony awarded to Esther: $12 a year.

Died. Major James H. Doolittle Jr., U.S.A.F., 38, World War II air combat veteran (50 missions), son of Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle; by gunshot wound, in his office, where a pistol was found on the floor near by; in Austin, Texas.

Died. Mark M. Mills, 40, jet-propulsion expert, designer and developer of atomic and hydrogen weapons, deputy director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory (Livermore Branch); of drowning in a helicopter crash; at Eniwetok, where nuclear-weapons tests are scheduled to begin this week.

Died. Paul Andrew Dever, 55, two-term Governor of Massachusetts (1949-53), who keynoted the 1952 Democratic convention, orated on and on against Republican "dinosaurs of political thought" while his suit became swampy with perspiration and his voice faded away to sandpaper hoarseness; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Sometimes known as the man of "girth and grins," the roly-politician was one of the canniest who ever sat on Beacon Hill, built up a formidable personal machine that almost withstood the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, when Republican Christian Herter won the Massachusetts governorship.

Died. Elliot Harold Paul, 67, author (The Last Time I Saw Paris, Life and Death of a Spanish Town-), writer of sometimes tongue -in -cheek whodunits (HuggerMugger in the Louvre, The Mysterious Mickey Finn), screen playwright (Rhapsody in Blue), expatriate journalist, gourmet, jazz pianist; after long illness; in Providence. Among the writers who found themselves by getting lost in post-World War I Paris, few achieved more publication than Elliot Paul. A bearded, balding man with the look of a Tatar khan, he was a familiar figure on the Left Bank for nearly two decades, co-edited the monthly literary magazine transition, which published and encouraged experimental writing by such Montmartyrs as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein.

Died. Marcel Pilet-Golaz, 68, twice (1934, 1940) President of Switzerland, dapper "Anthony Eden of Swiss politics," who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1944 because of criticism for his handling of Soviet relations; of a heart attack; in Paris.

Died. Ernest G. Chauvet, 69, Haitian delegate to the U.N., owner of Haiti's oldest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Alcibiades Arosemena, 73, career dairy farmer who became President of Panama (1951-52), later Ambassador to France; of a heart attack; in Panama.

Died. George Jean Nathan, 76, drama critic; in Manhattan (see PRESS).

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