Married. Evelyn Ay, 21, Miss America of 1954 (who expressed surprise at winning the title because she felt she was too fat "here and there"); and Carl G. Sempier Jr., 23, U.S. Navy ensign and former University of Pennsylvania varsity footballer; in Ephrata, Pa.

Married. Jane Powell, 25, blonde singing cinemactress (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers); and Patrick W. Nerney, 34, automobile dealer; each for the second time; in Ojai, Calif.

Died. Jacques Fath, 42, French dress designer who parlayed a one-room Paris salon into a $2,000,000-a-year business; of leukemia; in Paris. One of the three giants of postwar Paris fashion (the others: Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain), Fath branched into the U.S. market in 1948 with a ready-to-wear line sold in 200 cities by such stores as Lord & Taylor, I. Magnin, Neiman-Marcus.

Died. Howard Washington Odum, 70, dean of Southern sociologists and one of the earliest and most influential voices raised against the South's triple problem of poverty, race and regionalism; in Chapel Hill, N.C. During his 34 years at the University of North Carolina, Georgia-born Sociologist Odum exhorted his fellow Southerners (in 200-odd books, articles and monographs) to abandon provincialism, utilize to the fullest their great resources of power, climate, soil and men. He preached his message in scholarly tomes (Southern Regions of the United States) and popular novels (Rainbow Round My Shoulder), lived to see a new generation of Southerners on the way to realizing his fondest dream: a rich and powerful South that would "stop being afraid of democracy."

Died. Edward Clark Carter, 76, secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Relations during the turbulent '30s and '40s when it numbered among its staff such controversial left-wingers as Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Professor Owen Lattimore; in Manhattan. An early proponent of better U.S. understanding of Asia (and the wartime head of Russian War Relief), Carter denied during a 1951 Senate investigation that he was or had ever been a Communist, testified that the I.P.R. had rejected suggestions by Lattimore in the late '30s that it support Communism in China and Russia.

Died. J. Rosamond Johnson, 81, prolific Negro composer and cultural leader who (in partnership with brother James Weldon Johnson and Song-and-Dance Man Bob Cole) flooded the nation's music halls with more than 500 songs in the golden heyday of vaudeville (Under the Bamboo Tree), composer of the "Negro national anthem," Lift Every Voice and Sing, collector and arranger of spirituals; in Manhattan.

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