Married. Elizabeth Taylor, 27, cinemactress; and Eddie Fisher, 30, crooner (3 1/2 hours after he got a Nevada divorce from Cinemactress Debbie Reynolds); she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Westbrook Pegler, 64, terrible-tempered Old Guard newspaper columnist; and Pearl Wiley Doane, 47, an energetic worker in Los Angeles Republican politics; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1955), she for the third; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Anita Ekberg, 27, bosomy, Swedish-born cinemactress (Paris Holiday): Anthony Steel, 39, swashbuckling cinemactor (Ivory Hunter); after three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Reuven Shiloah, 49, Israeli diplomat, Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington (1953-57), a director of Israeli intelligence operations during Israel's struggle for independence; of a heart ailment; in Tel Aviv.

Died. Rex Smith, 58, world-roving, hard-living journalist and author; onetime (1937-41) editor of Newsweek, where he revamped editorial policy, helped push circulation from 190,000 to 450,000; editor of the Chicago Sun (1941-42); Vice President of American Airlines in charge of Public Relations (1946-58); of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Howell G. Crim, 60, longtime (1930-57) usher at the White House who served under four Presidents, became chief usher in 1938; of a lung ailment; in Washington.

Died. Whitley Charles Collins, 61, president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc.; of a circulatory ailment; in Los Angeles. A banker by training, Collins brought financial know-how to Northrop when he took over in 1954, in four years saw its sales rise from $171 million to $256 million.

Died. Sidney Bechet, 62, Negro Dixieland jazz artist famed for the honeyed wail of his soprano saxophone; of cancer; in Garches, a Paris suburb. At ten Bechet was tooting his clarinet in the dives of Storyville, New Orleans' oldtime red-light district, over the years spread the lusty music of Dixieland up and down the land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor in the U.S., he won his greatest success in Europe, became the idol of Paris cafe jazz buffs, who named 40 or more children after him. High point of a flamboyant career was his 1951 marriage to German-born Elizabeth Ziegler. Ten jazz bands played wedding music; flocks of jazz fans sang and danced in the streets; doves and champagne surrounded the couple as they jogged along the French Riviera in a horse-drawn carriage.

Died. Joe Cook, 69, zany vaudevillian who juggled six Indian clubs, devised complicated Seltzer-squirting, walnut-cracking machines, brought the house down by telling why he would not imitate four Ha| waiian ukulele players; in Clinton, N.Y.

Died. Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykov, 73, director of the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Leningrad, who, following the lead of his teacher, Pavlov, rejected Freud as the key to understanding human behavior; in Leningrad.

Died. Saverio Polito, 79, overzealous Rome police chief (1946-53) accused (and later cleared) of hushing up investigation of the notorious Wilma Montesi death, jailed by the Fascists in 1943 on a charge of trying to seduce Mussolini's wife while she was in his custody; of a circulatory ailment; in Rome.

Died. Edgar Landon Apperson, 89, auto industry pioneer, who built one of the world's first cars; in Phoenix, Ariz. In 1893 Apperson put together his first car in a little shop in Kokomo, Ind., later produced annually 1,500 cars (called Jackrabbits), prophesied in 1943: "When the American people are willing to sacrifice showing off, they'll get a lighter car built of light materials that will be cheaper to run."

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