Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 48, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot) now finishing his libretto for a musical based on the life of Haute Couturiere Coco Chanel; and Karen Gundersen, 31, a Newsweek reporter he met during an interview last year; he for the fifth time (others: Socialite Ruth Boyd, Actresses Marion Bell and Nancy Olson, and Lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo), she for the first; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Married. Jack Kerouac, 44, head beatnik and Zen brother to a now fading generation, who has written a dozen books about it (On the Road, the just-published Satori in Paris); and Stella Sampas, 47, manager of a dry-cleaning plant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hyannis, Mass.

Divorced. By Ann Clark Rockefeller Pierson, 32, elder daughter of Nelson: the Rev. Robert Laughlin Pierson, 40, Episcopal clergyman jailed after a 1961 Jackson, Miss., sit-in; on grounds of "incompatibility of temperament"; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Colonel James A. Jabara, 43, the U.S.'s first jet air ace, who shot down 15 MIGs in his F-86 Sabre jet in Korea, was currently commander of a Stateside fighter group not yet posted to Viet Nam, though he did talk his way into flying one strafing mission over North Viet Nam after delivering a replacement plane last July; of head injuries when his 16-year-old daughter--who also died of head injuries--lost control of their Volkswagen and the car overturned; in Delray Beach, Fla.

Died. Edward J. Meeman, 77, editor from 1931 to 1962 of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, who championed the TVA against private power owners and spent 20 years fighting Memphis Political Boss Edward H. Crump ("May his machine be cast into the junk heap"), finally won the engagement in 1948 when the Press-Scimitar's backing, against Crump's bitter opposition, helped put Estes Kefauver in the Senate; of a heart attack; near Memphis.

Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine.

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