Married. Prentice Cooper, 54, wealthy ex-Governor of Tennessee, loyal servitor of Memphis Boss Ed Crump, and former U.S. Ambassador to Peru; and U.N. Administrative Assistant Hortense Powell, 30; both for the first time; in Manhattan.

Died. Joe Gould, 53, manager of prizefighters, including onetime Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Jersey Jim") Braddock--with whom he never signed a formal contract until the title bout with Max Baer, relying instead on a simple handshake agreement; of leukemia; in Manhattan.

Died. Charles Coastas, 58, former Honolulu restaurateur whose generous hospitality toward wounded servicemen during the war won him a Navy citation and the grateful title, "One-Man U.S.O."; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif.

Died. William A. Alexander, 60, athletic director and for 25 years head football coach at Georgia Tech; of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A wily, diagraming tactician, Bill Alexander depended on a polished, whippet-lean squad to bring him 135 victories (95 defeats), five Bowl games, of which Tech won three.

Died. Muriel Starr, 62, veteran Canadian-born Broadway character actress, who enjoyed her greatest success touring Australia with American hit shows (Madame X, The Thirteenth Chair) during World War I and the early '20s; of a heart attack after her first-act performance in The Velvet Glove; in Manhattan.

Died. The Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, 72, Dominican Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, founder (in 1933) of the Catholic Legion of Decency, chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference; after long illness; in Cincinnati.

Died. Warwick Deeping, 73, British author of some 60 sentimental novels (Sorrell and Son, Roper's Row); in Weybridge, England. A staunch believer in the simple life ("I ceased to have any use for the pretty-pretty, or for literary cliques"), Author Deeping was a medical student in his early days, soon became "infected with the medievalism of the romantic school," gave up doctoring to spend his life writing happily of handsome heroes and virtuous heroines.

Died. Frank R. McNinch, 76, member (under President Hoover) and chairman (under President Roosevelt) of the Federal Power Commission, later head of the Federal Communications Commission, longtime foe of bigness in the power industry, the first to administer the "death-sentence clause" which forced the breakup of the big public utilities holding companies; of pneumonia; in Washington.

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