Monday, Aug. 22, 1983

MARRIED. Mary Beth Hurt, 34, resourceful film and stage actress (The World According to Garp, Crimes of the Heart); and Paul Schrader, 37, kitschy film director (American Gigolo, Cat People); both for the second time; in Chicago.

SENTENCED. Mary Hudson Vandegrift, 70, chairman of the board of Hudson Oil Co. and one of America's 400 wealthiest individuals, worth $100 million according to Forbes magazine; to 200 hours of public service in a retardation center and fined $5,000; for ordering her company's gasoline pumps readjusted so that customers got a small amount less than they paid for; in Olathe, Kans. Vandegrift pleaded no contest to the felony charge.

DIED. Jean Troisgros, 56, perfectionist chef of France's nouvelle cuisine; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Vittel, France. Troisgros and his younger brother Pierre turned their small-town family restaurant in Roanne into a mecca for traveling gourmets. Rejecting the heavy tradition of French haute cuisine, with its sumptuous dishes and rich sauces, the Troisgros brothers highlighted the freshness of ingredients used in such elegantly simple recipes as their classic salmon with sorrel sauce and the eclectic coupe-jarret, which consists of five different meats cooked in a kettle. Dashingly handsome, Troisgros eschewed the globetrotting celebrity of other nouvelle masters and stayed close to his restaurant. In 1968 Les Freres Troisgros received the supreme three-star accolade of the Guide Michelin, one of only a handful of French restaurants rated "worthy of a special journey."

DIED. Joan Robinson, 79, imperious, questing professor of economics at Cambridge University from 1965 to 1971; in Cambridge, England. In 1933, she published the iconoclastic Economics of Imperfect Competition and became the only woman in the small circle of scholars who met regularly with John Maynard Keynes to discuss the early drafts of his revolutionary tome, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). A prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope for "cruel" capitalism, she predicted in 1978 a global economic crisis, saying, "I am an optimist by temperament, but a pessimist by intellect." This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.