MARRIED. Tammy Wynette, 36, heartbreak queen of country-and-western music; and George Richey, 42, her business manager and constant traveling companion; she for the fifth time, he for the third; on the beach behind her Jupiter Inlet Beach Colony, Fla., home.

DIED. James Daly, 59, character actor who is currently being seen as Dr. Paul Lochner in reruns of TV's Medical Center; following a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. Daly managed to sustain an active Broadway career (Saint Joan, Billy Budd, J.B.) while garnering more than 600 television credits, primarily in adventure shows (The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible).

DIED. Barbara Gushing Paley, 63, graceful socialite and one of the world's best-dressed women; of cancer; in Manhattan. "Babe" Paley was introduced early to high society as one of three beautiful daughters of Boston Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She first hit the best-dressed lists "on nothing a year" as a fashion editor for Vogue magazine, choosing simple but striking clothes that marked her quiet sense of personal style. In 1947 she married William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and came to embody a standard of elegance by which social functions and fashion trends were judged.

DIED. William Fisk Harrah, 66, founder of two of Nevada's largest casinos, who built a fortune by stressing that nothing in the management of gambling be left to chance; after an operation for an aortal aneurysm; in Rochester, Minn. Harrah got his start in the 1930s by buying his father's failing bingo parlor in Venice, Calif., for $500; ever after, he catered to the small-time player. At both his Reno and Lake Tahoe gaming resorts, Harrah used computers to track daily profits and detect betting-table swindles. He also hired guards to watch for cheaters from high catwalks and through one-way ceiling mirrors. An antique-car buff, he opened a museum outside Reno that houses 1,400 vintage automobiles maintained by 150 mechanics.

DIED. Ernest Robert Breech, 81, hard-driving executive who helped galvanize an ailing postwar Ford Motor Co.; following a heart attack; in Royal Oak, Mich. Son of a Missouri blacksmith, Breech showed a big-city flak for business management and a wizardry with figures that propelled him to the chairmanship of North American Aviation Inc. in the early 1930s. After Breech had vitalized the Bendix Aviation Corp, in a single year, a desperate Henry Ford n persuaded him to quarterback Ford's new management team. Breech arrived in 1946 to find what he called an "awkward and stumbling colossus" with an estimated $100 million annual losses. When he stepped down as board chairman in 1960, the company was earning $500 million a year, with $4 billion in new plant and equipment. Easily lured back from retirement, Breech the next year became chairman of Trans World Airlines.

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