Married. Mortimer J. Adler, 60, professor, philosopher, author (How To Read A Book, etc.). lecturer, and compiler of the Syntopicon, a mammoth cross-index of works written by 74 of the world's most important authors on 102 of the world's most important ideas; and Caroline Sage Pring, 26, his former assistant; he for the second time; in San Francisco.

Died. Ferenc Fricsay, 48. energetic and far-ranging Hungarian-born conductor, at one time or another director of the Budapest and Munich State Operas, frequent guest conductor with the Salzburg Festival, Milan's La Scala and orchestras throughout Europe, but best known for his precise, cold-fire style that in the early 1950s raised the Berlin Radio Symphony to rank as one of Europe's best; in Basel, Switzerland.

Died. Maria Hacker Melchior, 59, petite wife of burly Wagnerian Meistertenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles. A Bavarian silent screen star, Maria Hacker was making a parachute jump for a film when a gust of wind blew her off course and into a garden where she landed directly in front of the startled Melchior. A few months later in May of 1925, she gave up her career to become his devoted Kleinchen (Little One).

Died. Frances Davis Lockridge, 67, plot-devising half of the husband-wife team that created the sophisticated Pam and Jerry North detective thrillers, a pleasant, undevious-looking woman about whom her husband Richard once said: "Frances suggests interesting victims--I kill 'em off"; of acute pancreatitis; in Norwalk, Conn.

Died. Robert LeRoy Cochran, 77, three-term governor of Nebraska, a slender, conservative Democrat, who was unwillingly pushed into the 1934 gubernatorial campaign from his post as state engineer, won a close election and so surprised the voters with his calm, sensible administration that they sent him back for two more terms; after a stroke; in Lincoln.

Died. Friedrich Joseph Dessauer, 81, pioneering West German radiologist and Roman Catholic author (Religion in the Light of Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt.

Died. Samuel Williston, 101, Harvard University's beloved and world-renowned law professor; in Cambridge, Mass. (see EDUCATION).

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