Divorced. By Sue Lyon, 18, cine-nymphet (Lolitd) and teen tease (The Night of the Iguana): Hampton Fancher III, 26, sometime flamenco dancer, who was banned from the Iguana set for Lyonizing Sue; on grounds of mental cruelty; after ten months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. By Dorothy Malone, 39, $3,000-a-week star of Peyton Place, TV's serialized sexpose of small-town life: Jacques Bergerac, 38, French lawyer-actor previously married to Ginger Rogers; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Sam Cooke, 32, Negro rock-'n'-roll singer who sold 10 million records (You Send Me, Kissing Cousins) in nine years, last spring advertised his appearance at a Manhattan nightclub with a 20-ft. by 100-ft. billboard that proclaimed "Sam's the biggest Cooke in town"; of bullet wounds inflicted by a motel proprietress when the singer burst in on her half-clad; in Los Angeles.

Died. Koji Harashima, 54, Japanese religious and political leader, a onetime schoolteacher who in 1940 joined the leftist Buddhist sect, Soka Gakkai (TiME, Dec. 11), rose to be its second-in-command and last month organized the movement's political arm, the Clean Government Party, which already ranks as the nation's third largest political force; of a heart attack; in Tokyo.

Died. Walter Gibson, 63, Wall Street broker widely credited as the sole inventor of the subspecial martini that bears his surname; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a habitue of the Ritz in Paris, Gibson gratified two hitherto mutually exclusive tastes, for dry gin and pickled pearl onions, by schooling the bartender to substitute a single Allium cepa for the conventional olive in his favorite cocktail. His claim was coldly, drily disputed, however, by those who attributed the gin-onion union to Artist Charles Dana Gibson or the late Will Gibson, Gene Tunney's primetime manager.

Died. Lord ("Billy") Rootes, 70, chairman and co-founder of the Rootes auto company and organizer of Britain's postwar export drive to the U.S., a ruddy, supercharged salesman who, with the help of his brother Sir Reginald Rootes ("I get the ideas and Reggie tells me why they can't be carried out"), turned his father's auto-sales firm into Britain's largest distributor by unloading cars as fast as they could be delivered, then, deciding that the manufacturers were "too sluggish," bought up the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam and Humber automaking firms and led the raid on the U.S. economy-car market in the early 1950s, making the family-owned Rootes Group such a profitable venture that Chrysler last year paid $35.2 million for a 30% interest in the company; in London.

Died. Percy Kilbride, 76, Hollywood's "Pa Kettle," a skilled Broadway character actor who won hayseedy fame as the first of the Beverly hillbillies, got so bored with lucrative Kettle-boilers (seven in all) that he refused to make any more; of injuries suffered when a car struck him three months ago; in Los Angeles.

Died. Lord Marks. 76, Britain's foremost retailer, who built a string of penny bazaars founded by his father into the huge, thriving Marks & Spencer clothing chain (239 stores, annual sales of $564 million), diverted much of his fortune to Jewish charities, notably Israel's Hebrew University and Weizmann Institute of Science; of a heart attack; in London.

Died. Dame Edith Sitwell, 77, peppery British poetess, whose acerb verdicts on her critics were as memorable as her melodious verse; of a heart attack; in London (see THE WORLD).

Died. Alma Werfel, 85. Viennese intellectual and wife to three geniuses, who took up with her second husband. Architect Walter Gropius, while still married to her first, Composer Gustav Mahler, had an illegitimate son by the late Austrian Novelist Franz Werfel (The Song of Bernadette). for whom she later divorced Gropius, explaining "the greater a man's achievements are, the more I love him"; of bronchitis, in Manhattan. In her autobiography she also told of her affair with Austrian Painter Oskar Kokoschka, said she was immortally roled by Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann ("In another life," he said, "we two must be lovers") and memorably serenaded by Russian Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

Died. Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, 88, Railroad Tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt's regal great-granddaughter, who in 1895 became one of the first U.S. heiresses to join European nobility when her mother forced her into marriage with the Duke of Marlborough; of a stroke; in Southampton, N.Y. Duchess Consuelo gave Marlborough $100,000 a year, dutifully carried out mother-in-law's first command--to bear a son to prevent "that little upstart Winston [Churchill]" from inheriting the title--only to find that their children and her money were all that she and the duke had in common; in 1920 she divorced him to marry the late French Aviator Jacques Balsan, thereafter presided over the social life of the Riviera and her native Long Island.

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