Married. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 43, the third Viscount Cowdray (grandson of millionaire Engineer-Oil Tycoon Sir Weetman Pearson), reputedly England's richest man; and Elizabeth Jackson, 26, ex-social secretary to Mrs. Lewis Douglas, wife of the onetime U.S. ambassador; he for the second time, she for the first; in London.

Divorced. Donald W. Douglas, 60, veteran planemaker and president of Douglas Aircraft Co.; by Charlotte Ogg Douglas, 61; after 36 1/2 years of marriage, five children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Herman J. Mankiewicz, 55, cinema writer-producer (Oscar winner, with Orson Welles, for Citizen Kane), elder brother of Writer-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz; of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood.

Died. Sergei Prokofiev, 61, Russia's foremost composer (The Love for Three Oranges, Peter and the Wolf); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his country home outside Moscow (see Music).

Died. Carrie Marcus Neiman, 69, co-founder and chairman of the board of Neiman-Marcus, famed Dallas specialty store; of pleurisy; in Dallas. With her former husband A. L. Neiman and her late brother Herbert Marcus, Carrie Neiman raised $35,000 in 1907 to bring high fashion to Texas, helped build the store into a $25 million annual business.

Died. Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 73, history's most successful tyrant, successor to Vladimir Ilich Lenin as Premier of the U.S.S.R.; of a cerebral hemorrhage, after 29 years in power; in Moscow (see DEATH IN THE KREMLIN).

Died. William Martin Jeffers, 77, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, World War II national rubber director; in Pasadena, Calif. Beginning as a call boy at 14, "Big Bill" Jeffers took no vacation (except for a honeymoon) for the next 40 of his 62 U.P. years. He introduced crack luxury streamliners, began a massive expansion program to make the U.P. one of the biggest moneymakers of any U.S. railroad.

Died. James J. Jeffries, 77, onetime (1899-1905) world heavyweight boxing champion; of a coronary thrombosis; in Burbank, Calif, (see SPORT).

Died. Philip H. Rosenbach, 89, bachelor bibliophile and president of the Rosenbach Co. (Philadelphia, New York), world's largest dealer in rare books and manuscripts; in Beverly Hills, Calif. While colorful younger brother Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, the late "Napoleon of Books," paid spectacular sums for first editions, Philip was called the "Invader" for his own worldwide literary sleuthing.

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