Married. Sally Kellerman, 32, screen actress who galvanized audiences as Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H; and Film Director Rick Edelstein, 41 (The Dirty Movie); she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Died. Mimi Benzell, 47, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned successful Broadway, TV and nightclub singer; of cancer; in Manhasset, N.Y. Making her Met debut at age 21 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, she won acclaim for such roles as Gilda in Rigoletto and Musetta in La Boheme before moving to Broadway, where she starred in the long-running musical Milk and Honey.

Died. Max Lincoln Schuster, 73, co-founder of Simon & Schuster and a major figure on the American literary scene for nearly half a century; in Manhattan. Schuster's favorite question was always "Is there a book in it?" while Simon's was "Will it sell?" A relentless collector of ideas, Schuster personally selected and rejected manuscripts, encouraged authors such as Robert Ripley and Eddie Cantor, with his practice of assigning books rather than waiting for them to come in, and somehow found time for substantial work of his own, notably the popular Treasury of the World's Great Letters (1940). Perhaps his most inventive idea was The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature, a version pepped up by the elimination of routine "begats" and archaic punctuation. S. and S. published numerous how-to manuals as well as Will Durant's exhaustive histories, and also took a lead in bringing the paperback into general circulation.

Died. Paul Boepple, 74, one of the nation's leading choral directors; of pneumonia; in Brattleboro, Vt. As director of the Dessoff Choirs from 1936 until his retirement in 1968, the Swiss-born Boepple was instrumental in expanding American amateur choral singing beyond the traditional repertory, introducing the works of Contemporary Composers Frank Martin and Arthur Honegger, and reviving such once-neglected oratorios as Handel's Israel in Egypt.

Died. Charles Ruggles, 84, long one of Hollywood's most engaging comedians; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. With mischievous look and disarming grin, Ruggles performed in more than 90 films, most of them comedies (If i Had a Million, Charley's Aunt). He appeared so often as the husband of fluttery Mary Boland that fans thought that they were actually married. He returned to Broadway in 1958 (The Pleasure of His Company), then more recently took on warm, grandfatherly roles in Walt Disney features (The Ugly Dachshund, Follow Me, Boys!).

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