Divorced. Flip Wilson, 42, jive-cracking comedian of assorted aliases, including the soul-searching, money-grabbing Rev. Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now; and Blondell Pittman Wilson; after 17 years of common-law marriage, two sons, two daughters; in Miami.

Died. Edouard Saab, 47, editor of Beirut's French-language daily newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour; of a sniper's bullet; in war-torn Beirut, while driving to the Moslem side of the battle line after two days of reporting on the Christians. A Maronite Christian born in Syria, Saab drifted into journalism after studying law at Beirut's St. Joseph University. The author of two books on the Middle East, Saab at the time of his death was writing one on Lebanon's present conflict, which he feared could lead to genocide. He saw no solution.

Died. Shlomo Bardin, 77, founder and executive director of the Brandeis Institute, which for 35 years has run a summer retreat near Los Angeles where college-age Jewish youths are taught Hebrew culture and religion; of kidney disease; in Westlake, Calif. Born in the Ukraine, Bardin emigrated in 1919 to Palestine, where he founded a technical high school. At his death he had completed plans for a Jewish prep school on the Brandeis Institute grounds.

Died. Morris L. Ernst, 87, civil liberties and labor lawyer who served as an adviser to U.S. Presidents; in New York City. Ernst had a passion for causes, and very few were lost. An ebullient foe of censorship, he broke down the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. He served as counsel to the American Newspaper Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union; he defended Communists and Frank Costello, while deploring both. Concerned in later life that too many restraints had been removed, he declared that he would not want "to live in a society without limits to freedom."

Died. Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 92, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet during World War II from 1942-44; in Bethesda, Md. A spare, taciturn man, Ingersoll directed the fight against German U-boats and oversaw the escort of U.S. troops and supplies crossing the battle-soaked Atlantic. Later, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, he poured men and materiel into the fight against Japan.

Death Revealed. Mary Jennifer Selznick, 21, only child of Actress Jennifer Jones and the late motion picture producer David O. Selznick; after a jump or fall from the roof of a 22-story building; in Los Angeles on May 11.

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