Divorced. By Peggy Lee, 33, blonde Hollywood songstress (The Jazz Singer') and jukebox favorite (Lover, Mariana): her second husband. Brad Dexter, 36, cinemactor (Macao); after ten months of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Dylan Marlais Thomas, 39, Wales's bright young mystic of English poetry (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Under Milk Wood), whose vivid, tempestuous verse won him both critics' acclaim and thousands of readers; of undisclosed causes, while on a lecture tour of the U.S.; in Manhattan.

Died. Major General John H. (for Houston) Church, 61, who in 1950 commanded the first U.S. troops sent from Japan to fight in Korea; after long illness; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, 71, oldtime Army cavalryman who during World War II trained and led the crack ist Cavalry Division in the Southwest Pacific (New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands), later commanded the Sixth Army's I Corps in the liberation of the Philippines; of a heart ailment; in San Antonio.

Died. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman al Faisal al Saud. 73, oil-rich King of Saudi Arabia; in his palace at Taif, near Mecca (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin, 83, self-exiled Russian nobleman-author (The Village, Memories and Portraits) and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature, of a heart attack; in Paris.

Died. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, 89, the nation's No. 1 patroness of chamber music; in Cambridge, Mass. She commissioned countless works by established composers (e.g., Bartok, Ravel, Copland) and struggling newcomers, gave a $94,000 concert hall to the Library of Congress (plus a $600,000 endowment), contributed $200,000 to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's pension fund.

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