Marriage Revealed. Lew Ayres, 55, cinemactor, onetime Dr. Kildare, most recently the Vice President in Advise and Consent; and Diana Hall, airline stewardess; he for the third time; "By a minister, somewhere in California," Lew said Ayrily; on Feb. 7.

Died. Ken Hubbs, 22, second baseman for the Chicago Cubs, National League Rookie of the Year in 1962 (he set a major-league record by playing 78 consecutive games without an error); when the Cessna 172 he was flying home to California crashed in a storm; near Prove, Utah.

Died. Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend, 67, Boston financier, one of the nation's best-known corporate marriage brokers, who merged his hotel chain (Manhattan's Plaza, Washington's Mayflower) into money-losing Child's Restaurants in 1956 to form Hotel Corp. of America, a move that enabled him to write off hotel profits against restaurant tax credits, used the same method to take Botany textiles into everything from suntan lotion to Mad magazine, sent profits soaring for both companies until the credits ran out, whereupon disenchanted stockholders last year cut his Hotel Corp. salary by $25,000 (to $75,000 as chairman), eased him out of Botany altogether; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Samuel Chotzinoff, 74, NBC's classical-music chief since 1941, who lured his good friend Arturo Toscanini back from Italy to conduct for NBC, became what some called "vice president for Toscanini," stayed on after the maestro retired to create topflight TV opera, commissioned Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, started Leontyne Price on her way to stardom; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. Robert Lee Thornton, 83, mayor of Dallas from 1953 to 1961 and the city's No. 1 booster for four decades; after a long illness; in Dallas. The son of a tenant cotton farmer who built a tiny mortgage business into the $450 million Mercantile National Bank (one of Dallas' Big Three), Thornton was head of a host of civic organizations that helped bring in the Dallas Symphony, the 1935 Texas Centennial, and an annual state fair the likes of which even Texans had never seen.

Died. Finley Robertson Porter, 92, automotive pioneer, chief designer of the low-slung Mercer Raceabout, a forerunner of modern sportscars produced just before World War I, which cost $2,500 and is today's most valuable vintage U.S. auto (the 25 known surviving models are each worth at least $18,000); of heart disease; in Southampton, N.Y.

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