Divorced. Tommy Manville, 47-year-old asbestos heir; by his fifth wife, Bonita Francine Edwards, 22; in Reno.

Died. Dona Elena Patino, Marquesa de Valparaiso y del Merito, daughter of Tin King Simon I. Patino of Bolivia; after a month's illness; in Manhattan. A woman in her early 30s, she had been given a fortune by her fabulously wealthy father when she married, and she became one of the world's wealthiest women when he distributed the bulk of his estate to his family last May.

Died. William Alexander Percy, 56, lawyer, poet, writer of the autobiographical best-seller Lanterns on the Levee; in Greenville, Miss.

Died. Dennis ("The Duke") Cooney, 63, longtime Chicago vice tycoon, onetime employer of Scarface Al Capone (as a busboy); of a heart attack; in Chicago. Though Cooney was affluent, liked to throw his money around, his mother refused to live on his income, made her living scrubbing floors till her death. Cooney retired from wholesale pandering a few years ago, seeking respectability.

Died. William Gibson, Lord Ashbourne. 73, lifelong foe of the use of English language or dress in Ireland; in Compiegne, France. He wore Irish kilts in the House of Lords, wrote and talked chiefly in Gaelic and French, believed the habitual use of English deformed the mouth. His sister, Violet, out of her head, shot at Benito Mussolini in 1926.

Died. George Ashley Tomlinson, 76, burly Great Lakes shipping tycoon, short-time president of the Van Sweringen rail empire's top holding company, onetime Wild West show performer; of a paralytic stroke; in Pasadena. When the Van Sweringens faced loss of control of their $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate properties in 1935, Tomlinson and Glassmaker George A. Ball made them needed loans, and Tomlinson became president and chairman of the Van Sweringen holding company, Allegheny Corp., in 1938. He resigned the next year, but retained the chairmanship of the Pere Marquette.

Died. Walter Richard Sickert, Sr, youthful "old master" of British painting; in Bathampton, England. Widely credited with introducing impressionism in England, he was a young disciple of Degas, a student of Whistler. Of himself as a painter he was once quoted: "My pictures are like the clippings of my toenails; they grow out of me and I have cut them off, and that is all I know about it."

Left. By Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed Wall Street plunger who committed suicide in 1940: debts of $468,057, assets of $107,047.

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