Divorced. Ringo Starr, 35, former Beatle drummer lately boogalooing it solo; in an uncontested suit by his wife of ten years, Maureen Cox, 28, a Liverpudlian hairdresser who bore him three children; on grounds of Ringo's alleged adultery with Nancy Andrews, 24, an American model whom he met on a blind date in Los Angeles last summer.

Died. Charles Weidman, 73, pioneer of American modern dance; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Like Choreographer-Dancers Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, Weidman studied at the famed Denishawn School in Los Angeles, leaving to found his own company with Humphrey in 1929. Seeking to choreograph the American scene, Weidman created such works as Lynch Town, a depiction of mob violence, and Fables for Our Time, based on a series of James Thurber's stories. A dedicated teacher, he numbered among his pupils Jose Limon and Choreographer Bob Fosse (Cabaret, Chicago).

Died. Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton, 77, innovative jazz drummer; in Manhattan. Zutty (Creole patois for cute) grew up musically in the hothouse of pre-World War I New Orleans jazz, developing a driving, fiercely rhythmic style on the snare and bass drums and was one of the first jazz drummers to use wire brushes. Until the early '30s, he played regularly with Louis Armstrong and later recorded with Charlie (Bird) Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Died. Elisabeth May Craig, 86, Washington correspondent for the Guy Gannett newspaper chain of Maine from 1926 to 1965; after a long illness; in Silver Spring, Md. Craig marched in a suffragette parade at Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, and later vigorously protested her exclusion from all-male press gatherings in Washington. She earned colleagues' respect for her "dodge-proof questions and barbed repartee at the press conferences of five Presidents. When F.D.R. once lamely admitted, "That wasn't much of an answer, was it?" Craig shot back, "No." Her hair in a bun under one of dozens of Easter-bonnet hats, she also queried officials in a come-out-and-fight soprano voice for many years on Meet the Press.

Died. James Chapin, 88, American painter; of an apparent heart attack; in Toronto. Chapin's spare, muscular style, which he called "environmental realism" developed during five years of sketching the Marvins, a hardscrabble New Jersey farm family he lived with in the mid-1920s. Beginning in 1955, he painted dozens of TIME covers, including Adlai Stevenson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Boris Pasternak and Edward Hopper.

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