MARRIED. Mary Courtney Kennedy, 23, No. 5 of the eleven children of Ethel Kennedy and the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and an aide in Uncle Ted's campaign; and Jeffrey Ruhe, 28, assistant to ABC's news and sports chief Roone Arledge; in Washington, D.C.

MARRIED. John Williams, 48, hot Hollywood sound-track composer (Jaws I and II, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), who succeeded Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra this year; and Samantha Winslow, thirtyish, a Los Angeles freelance photographer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Boston.

DIED. Philip Guston, 66, influential U.S. painter; of a heart attack; in Woodstock, N. Y. The Canadian-born son of Russian immigrants, Guston joined Jackson Pollock, a schoolmate of his in Los Angeles, and other contemporaries like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko in forging the abstract expressionist movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the past decade he returned from his often dreamlike works to representational painting. His explanation: "I got sick and tired of all the purity. I wanted to tell stories."

DIED. Milburn Stone, 75, veteran character actor who as the vinegary yet avuncular Doc Adams in TV's popular Gunsmoke series played friend and foil to James Arness's Matt Dillon and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty throughout the show's 20-year (1955-75) run; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. Stone became so strongly identified with the role, for which he won an Emmy, that he once quipped, "To everyone except my family I'm Doc. Getting so I have to restrain myself from making house calls."

DIED. William A. Patterson, 80, U.S. aviation pioneer who as president and later chairman of United Airlines for 32 years (until 1966) made it the world's largest commercial air service; after a long illness; in Glenview, Ill. With the backing of Planemaker William E. Boeing, Honolulu-born Patterson in the 1930s put together four small freight carriers to form an airline that now serves 112 U.S. and Canadian cities and boasts annual revenues of $3.4 billion. Among Patterson's innovations: hiring what he called female couriers, forerunners of today's stewardesses.

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