Married. Billy Martin, 31, Cleveland Indians second baseman; and Gretchen Ann Winkler, 24, Trans World Airlines hostess; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza), 38. golden-throated tenor who aspired to be a second Caruso but lacked the self-discipline to train his voice, went instead on a ten-year whirl of Hollywood, where he grossed $5,000,000 from films (The Great Caruso) and recordings (Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year) that sold more than a million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued for $5,000,000 by M-G-M for refusing to appear in The Student Prince. His voice already showing tarnish, he allowed an earlier recording to be dubbed in when he sang on a 1954 CBS-TV show. He sought refuge in a sybaritic style of life, fought a battle against the overweight that ultimately led to his death.

Died. De Benneville (Bert) Bell, 65, iron-willed National Football League Commissioner (1946-59) who, by a liberal use of his powers and an occasional violation of the letter of the bylaws, turned professional football into a booming sport, aroused interest to the point of doubling attendance and players' salaries; after a heart attack; in Philadelphia.

Died. Lieut. General Oscar Woolverton Griswold, 72, XIV Army Corps Commander (1943-45) in the Southwest Pacific, whose troops made the assaults on New Georgia and Bougainville (9,000 Japanese were killed at a ratio of 30 to every American death), as part of the Sixth Army mopped up the Japanese in southern Luzon; in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Died. Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, 74, topflight British scientist who chairmaned the Air Ministry's secret research committee that devised air weapons for World War II, supervised and contributed significantly to the development of radar in time to provide a chain of radar stations for the Battle of Britain, personally carried (1940) the magnetron, heart of radar, to the U.S. where it was quickly put into mass production; in Fareham, England.

Died. Li Chi-shen, 75, volatile vice chairman of Red China's National People's Congress, onetime top-ranking soldier of Chiang Kai-shek who led a bloody purge against the Communists in 1927, served as Chiang's chief of staff (1928), often quarreled with the Generalissimo, decisively in 1947 when at the height of the military crisis he tried to form a third party of liberals and warlords to mediate between the Nationalists and the Communists; of cancer and a cerebral thrombosis; in Peking.

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