MARRIED. Sally Kellerman, 43, spacy blond movie comedian (Foxes, Serial) who rose to fame as Major "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the 1970 movie MASH; and Jonathan Krane, 28, a Los Angeles tax attorney; she for the second time, he for the first; at the Malibu, Calif., home of Actress Jennifer Jones and Art Collector Norton Simon.

DIED. Lillian Roth, 69, torchy-voiced singer-actress who told all about her lifelong struggle against alcoholism and mental illness in a poignant 1954 autobiography, I'll Cry Tomorrow, that became a hit movie starring Susan Hayward; following a stroke; in New York City. Pushed by ambitious parents, Roth was already a stage and vaudeville star when she began her Hollywood career at 18, but her professional success was punctuated by repeated personal disasters, including recurring drinking bouts, fits of depression and failed marriages. Her book's popularity helped launch a final comeback ("My 94th," she quipped) that got her nightclub dates and Broadway and film roles.

DIED. Francis Robinson, 70, nationally known voice of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera as its press spokesman, radio and TV guide and all-round almanac of operatic history for three decades; of cancer; in New York City. Robinson, who joined the Met as tour manager in 1948, when the company did its traveling in two trains with 18 sleeping and 22 baggage cars, once confessed a desire to be onstage. But in his managerial role, he said, "I came as close as I could without singing, and I've probably lasted longer."

DIED. Howard Mumford Jones, 88, Pulitzer-prize winning historian of American culture who taught at Harvard for nearly three decades; in Cambridge, Mass. The Michigan-born scholar, whose 40 books included plays, poetry, essays and biographies, was best known for the trilogy that began in 1964 with O Strange New World and hailed the U.S. as the first nation "to be created on philosophic assumptions." The field of American studies, argued Jones at a time when European cultural history was still dominant on U.S. campuses, is "one of the most demanding disciplines" and "not for the C mind."

DIED. Henry Knox Sherrill, 89, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S. from 1947 to 1958 and one of the nation's most vocal advocates of ecumenism; in Boxford, Mass. Born in Brooklyn, Sherrill rose from assistant minister of a Boston parish to Bishop of Massachusetts at 39 and head of the national church at 56. As the first chief of the National Council of Churches of Christ (1950-52) and one of six presidents of the World Council of Churches from 1954 to 1961, he asked, "How can we expect other nations to cooperate when we evidence so little ability at cooperation ourselves?"

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