Married. Mickey Rooney, 45, movie juvenile turned character actor (The Secret Invasion); and Margie Lane, 43, his longtime friend; he for the sixth time, she for the second; in Las Vegas.

Died. Hendrik Verwoerd, 64, Prime Minister of South Africa; by assassination; in Cape Town (see THE WORLD).

Died. Dr. William Menninger, 66, psychiatrist and head (with his better-known older brother Karl) of Kansas' famed Menninger Foundation, a rangy, friendly Midwesterner who made himself the nation's most dedicated campaigner for better care of the mentally ill, a subject about which he tirelessly lectured government, industry and the public in speeches, articles and books (You and Psychiatry, Understanding Yourself); of cancer; in Topeka.

Died. Al Kelly, 69, doubletalking comic, who for 51 years delighted all sorts of audiences, prompting conventioning doctors to nod sagely at such prescriptions as "injections of triprobe into the right differnarian" and once inspiring Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton to exclaim: "If ever a man be longed in Washington, you do"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Eugene Boerner, 73, rose hybridizer, who in 46 years at Jackson & Perkins, world's biggest rose growers, developed more than 155 new varieties, and the coral and gold "Fashion," only U.S. rose ever to win nine major awards; of heart disease; in Clifton Springs, N.Y.

Died. Margaret Sanger, 82, the U.S.'s first and foremost crusader for birth control; of arteriosclerosis; in Tucson, Ariz, (see MODERN LIVING).

Died. Cecile Sorel, 92, French actress, who reigned as queen of the Comedie Francaise for 32 years (1901-33), made an abrupt switch at 60 to the music halls, where she delighted Paris with her naughty-haughty sketches of Mesdames DuBarry and Pompadour, all the while causing equally spectacular offstage tremors with her collection of celebrated admirers, which included Russia's Nicholas II, Egypt's King Fuad, France's Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, Italy's Mussolini and England's Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Deauville.

Died. Walter Friedlaender, 93, art historian and professor at N.Y.U.'s Institute of Fine Arts, who cast new light into some dark corners of European art (Caravaggio, Poussin) and identified a 16th century transitional style of exaggerated painting that he called "mannerism," thus providing a key to the change from Renaissance to the baroque; of cancer; in Manhattan.

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