Marriage Revealed. Frances Mary ("Robbie") Robinson, 35, longtime right-hand-woman of the late Brigadier General Hugh Johnson; and Colonel James Bryan Newman Jr., 45, of the Army Air Corps; last Dec. 27; in Martinsburg, W. Va.

Died. Frank Churchill, 40, hit tune composer (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?; Heigh Ho; Whistle While You Work); by his own hand (shooting); near Newhall, Calif. He had been composing for Walt Disney for eleven years. A suicide note to his wife read: "My nerves have completely left me. Please forgive me for this awful act." Churchill's songs included one called Happy as a Lark, another called The Sunny Side of Things.

Died. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, 58, famed Polish anthropologist; of a heart attack; in New Haven. He was one of the first anthropologists to study primitive societies at first hand, lived among the savages of the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea for four years, after his studies there wrote a series of books (including The Sexual Life of Savages in N.W. Melanesia) which became the most famed of his voluminous output.

Died. Morris Gest, 61, veteran impresario, spectacular theatrical producer; of a heart attack following pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born Moses Gershonovich in Russia, he was shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times he represented Eleanora Duse, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, brought to the U.S. for the first time the Diaghilev Ballet, Balieff's Chauve-Souris, the Moscow Art Theater.

Died. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, 65, best-known snake man in the U.S.; in Manhattan. Successful popularizer of herpetology, entomology (Snakes of the World, Thrills of a Naturalist's Quest), he was Curator of Reptiles at The Bronx Zoo from 1899 until last January. Died. Joseph Francis Jiranek, 69 ("Joe Jackson, the tramp cyclist"); of a heart attack; in the wings of Manhattan's Roxy Theater.

Jiranek was one of the great comic pantomimists. His act remained virtually unchanged for more than 30 years; so did his great popularity in Europe and the U.S. His last words: "They're still applauding."

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