Monday, May. 15, 1978

MARRIED. Paloma Picasso, 29, daughter of the late painter and his longtime mistress Franc,oise Gilot; and Raphael Lopez Sanchez, 30, Argentine-born playwright for whose productions Paloma has designed sets and costumes; in Paris.

MARRIED. Henry ("The Fonz") Winkler, 32, swaggering star of television's nostalgic series Happy Days and Hollywood screen actor (Heroes, The One and Only); and Stacey Weitzman, 30, a Los Angeles fashion publicist; in the Manhattan synagogue where he became a bar mitzvah.

DIED. Ralston Crawford, 71, painter, photographer and lithographer known for his cool, clean-cut geometrical depictions of the bridges, elevated trains and airplanes that fascinated him in the 1930s; of can cer; in Houston, where he was arranging for an exhibition of his work. Sent by FORTUNE magazine to paint the atomic explosion at Bikini in 1946, Crawford was aghast at its blinding light and all-encompassing destruction. As a result, he developed new expressive qualities that continued to be seen in some of his later works. New Orleans, where he often painted and photographed jazz musicians, was a favorite haunt, and it was there that a traditional jazz funeral was held for him.

DIED. Josef Marais, 72, South African-born composer and folk singer who toured for decades with his wife Miranda; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A violinist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Marais collected the rhythmic calypso-style Afrikaner folk songs, which, as a sort of bushveld hillbilly, he was later to sing in the U.S. and Europe.

DIED. Aram Khachaturian, 74, prolific Soviet composer whose works pulse with the rhythms of his ancestral Armenia; after a long illness; in Moscow. A patriot who celebrated the "wrath of the Soviet people waging a struggle for humanity" (Second Symphony, 1943) and a Roman slave insurrection (the ballet Spartacus, 1953), Khachaturian won numerous Soviet prizes, returning one 50,000-ruble Stalin award during the war and asking that a tank be built with the money. From the start of his career in the 1930s, he also involved himself with Communist Party politics, eventually becoming deputy chairman of the Union of Soviet Composers. His political stature crumbled in 1948, however, when together with Composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev he was condemned by the par ty's Central Committee for works that "smelled strongly of the spirit of bourgeois music of Europe and America." Khachaturian apologized publicly and regained Soviet favor firmly enough to visit Washington, D.C., in 1968, conducting his own work and using as his encore the brassy Sabre Dance (from his ballet Gayane), a three-minute piece that once topped the U.S. pop charts.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.