Married. Westbrook Pegler, 67, cantankerous Hearst columnist divorced by his second wife three weeks ago; and Maud Towart, 43, his former secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Midland, Texas.

Divorced. By Richard Wagstaff ("Dick") Clark, 31, $500,000-a-year disk jockey and baby-faced idol of the rock-'n'-roll set; Barbara Mallery Clark, 30, his high school sweetheart; after nine years of marriage, one child; in a Philadelphia court that kept secret the grounds for the decree.

Died. Ruth Chatterton, 67, diminutive, honey-haired jack-of-all-arts who became a Broadway star at 21 in Henry Miller's Daddy Long-Legs, a Hollywood star at 34 in Sins of the Fathers, and a bestselling novelist at 56 with Homeward Borne; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Norwalk, Conn. Gracious of manner and restless of mind, thrice-married Ruth Chatterton spent more than a decade as one of Hollywood's leading ladies making such films as Dodsworth and Madame X, then returned to the stage to score solid triumphs in The Constant Wife and Pygmalion, still had enough excess energy to take up flying, write songs, translate plays from the French, serve on committees to aid Israel, and write four books.

Died. Axel Wenner-Gren, 80, handsome, white-haired "Swedish sphinx" of international finance who amassed a personal fortune of more than $1 billion by dealing in everything from diet pills to antiaircraft guns, donated nearly $50 million to libraries and laboratories around the world, but never quite stilled the doubts aroused by his suspected dealings with the Nazis in World War II; of cancer; in Stockholm. A consummate salesman, Wenner-Gren worked in obscure jobs in Sweden and the U.S. till he was nearly 40, then proceeded to put together an industrial empire based on Electrolux vacuum cleaners and Servel refrigerators, hobnobbed with dictators, Prime Ministers and Presidents throughout the Western world till the outbreak of World War II, when he fled by yacht to Mexico, where he spent many of his remaining years supervising massive industrial and real estate developments in Latin America, Canada and the Bahamas.

Died. James Andrew Hagerty, 85, longtime dean of U.S. political reporters who in 44 years on the old New York Herald and New York Times scored some of journalism's most notable beats (including one on the lamplight swearing-in of President Coolidge in Vermont), a ruggedly independent newsman who advised his son to steer clear of political press-agentry but came to take high pride in "Young Jim's" performance as Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

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