Married. Ronald Searle, 47, scalpel-sharp British cartoonist, creator of the spindly legged fiends known as the Belles of St. Trinian's; and Monica Stirling, fiftyish, British novelist (The Boy in Blue) and Searle's longtime companion; he for the second time; in Paris.

Died. Vivien Leigh, 53, brilliantly versatile actress; after a long siege of tuberculosis; in London. A fragile (5 ft. 3 in., 100 Ibs.) British beauty, she spun to international fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent tutor. The triumphs were fewer after their divorce in 1960, though she still won plaudits as the vixenish divorcee in Hollywood's Ship of Fools two years ago and as the consumptive Anna last year in Broadway's Ivanov.

Died. William M. Fechteler, 71, four-star admiral, an old-fashioned "black-shoe" (in Navy talk, a pure sailor as opposed to a brown-shoe, or flyer) who learned his profession aboard destroyers and battleships, in World War II led amphibious assaults on New Guinea and the Philippines, in 1951 was named Chief of Naval Operations during the Korean War buildup, then took over as Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in Southern Europe until his retirement in 1956; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Konni Zilliacus, 72, maverick of the British left and longtime (1945-50, 1955-67) Member of Parliament, a World War I emigre from the U.S. who saw himself as the Labor Party's socialist conscience and was regarded by many others as a crypto-Communist, treating the House of Commons to such rabidly proSoviet, anti-American, anti-British sentiments (including attacks on Labor Leaders Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell) that in 1949 and in 1961 he was suspended from the party; of leukemia; in London.

Died. Bruce Barton, 80, dean of Madison Avenue, last surviving founder of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan (see THE NATION).

Died. John Big Tree, 90, a chief of the Seneca Indian tribe, whose craggy profile became familiar to every American when Sculptor James Earle Fraser used it as a model for the "heads" side of the 1913 Buffalo nickel; after a brief illness; near Syracuse, N.Y.

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