Married. Henry Fonda, 51, tall, blue-eyed and durable player of heart-of-gold heroes through two decades of Broadway and Hollywood (Mister Roberts, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial); and slim, dark Italian Contessa Aidera Franchetti, 24; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Frank Loesser, 46, famed words-and-musicman (Guys and Dolls) and indefatigable (1,500 songs) tunesmith (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Jingle-Jangle-Jingle, etc.); by Mary Alice ("Lynn") Loesser, 41, tall, blonde co-producer of Loesser's current Broadway hit, The Most Happy Fella; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica.

Death Revealed. Sergei Yakovlevich Zhuk, 65, Soviet engineer; cause of death, unreported; in Moscow. Though little known outside Russia, as director of such mammoth enterprises as the White Sea-Baltic Canal (opened in 1933), the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937), and the Volga-Don Canal (1952), he was the boss of the biggest projects built by forced labor since the Great Wall of China.

Died. William Johnson, 41, tall, bearded baritone who starred in the Broadway musical Pipe Dream (opposite Helen Traubel), replaced Alfred Drake in Kismet (1954), sang the male lead in the London productions of Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate; of a heart attack; in Flemington, N.J.

Died. Chang Chia Hutukhtu, 64, among the most important "Living Buddhas" (not to be confused with Baltimore resident Dilowa Hutukhtu who defended Far East expert Owen Lattimore in 1950 against charges of aiding Communists in China, and who is known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died, will launch an immediate search for his successor--a baby born at the exact moment of his death.

Died. Percy Wyndham Lewis,* 72, irascible and erratic novelist, artist and critic-of-mankind; of a brain tumor; in London. A self-styled "Renaissance Man" and professional dissenter, Lewis launched a lifelong guerrilla warfare on convention in 1914 with Blast, a magazine (co-edited with Poet-Pundit Ezra Pound) which ferociously lit into the popular romanticism ("chaos of Enoch Ardens, laughing Jennys, ladies with pains, good-for-nothing Guineveres"). He introduced cubism to Britain, then characteristically turned on it fiercely when cubism became popular. In a series of novels written in prose as rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr, The Apes of God, Rotting Hill), he mocked and mauled socialists, his fellow intellectuals, the middle class ("dry-rotted yes-people who are clay in the hands of carpenters"). After his fashion, he gave the U.S. some rare admiration--"a great promiscuous grave into which tumble, and then disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class or nationhood." In 1951, long failing of sight, he became blind, but he kept up his furious writing: "Milton had his daughters, I have my Dictaphone." Poet T. S. Eliot called him "the most fascinating personality of our time," combining "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave-man."

* No kin to D. B. Wyndham Lewis, British humorist (The .Stuffed Owl) and biographer (Franc,ois Villon).

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