Divorced. Kyle Rote, 45, former star running back and team captain of the New York football Giants, now calling the plays as a New York sports broadcaster; and Sharon Kay Ritchie, 36, infrequent stage actress and Miss America of 1956; after seven years of marriage (one of separation), no children; in Manhattan.

Died. General Alan Shapley, U.S.M.C., 70, who survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor to become the ranking Marine Corps officer in the Pacific; of a lung tumor; in Bethesda, Md. Shapley was commander of the Arizona's 87-Marine detachment in December 1941 and one of the ship's nine Marine survivors. Awarded the Navy Silver Star for his gallantry during the Pearl Harbor attack, he served through much of the subsequent fighting in the Pacific and later in Korea, and in 1961 was named commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific.

Died. Eugene Rabinowitch, 72, Russian-born biophysicist who, as a senior member of the Manhattan Project during World War II, helped develop the first atomic bomb, then spent the next 27 years as editor of the authoritative Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a leading proponent of nuclear arms control; after suffering a stroke; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Frances Marion, 86, newspaper correspondent who became one of Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriters of the '20s and '30s; in Los Angeles.

Marion joined the fledgling film industry shortly after World War I, quickly graduated from $15-a-week secretary to $17,000-a-week scenarist. She scripted Greta Garbo's first talkie (Anna Christie), Clark Gable's first romantic film (The Secret Six), and in 1930 and '31 won successive Oscars for two Wallace Beery movies (The Big House, The Champ). Just last fall Marion published her sentimental memoirs of Hollywood, Off With Their Heads.

Died. Jeannette Rankin, 92, first woman ever elected to Congress; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. An outspoken suffragette and determined pacifist, Rankin was first sent to Congress by Montana voters in 1917, and was one of 50 Representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. Returning for a second term in 1941, she again stunned her constituents by casting Congress' only vote against war with Japan. Though angry Montanans denied her another term, Rankin remained an active pacifist, and in 1968 led 5,000 women members of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade to Washington to protest the Viet Nam War.

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