Married. Oscar Ross Ewing, 66, Federal Security administrator (1947-52) who helped lead President Truman's unsuccessful fight for a compulsory national health insurance bill; and Mrs. Mary Whiting Thomas, 49; in Durham, N.C.

Died. Hector ("Wee Hector") McNeil, 48, Scottish-born Minister of State (1946-50) in Britain's postwar Labor government, Member of Parliament (1941-55), delegate to the United Nations (1946-49), Vice President of the U.N. General Assembly in 1947; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered aboard the Queen Mary while en route to the U.S.; in Manhattan.

Died. General Manuel Avila Camacho, 58, President of Mexico (1940-46); of a heart attack; at his ranch near Mexico City. A brave but unflamboyant fighter in the flamboyant Mexican revolution, Avila Camacho climbed the ranks to Minister of National Defense under President (1934-40) Lazaro Cardenas, who then helped Avila Camacho get elected. Wartime President Avila Camacho junked Cardenas' leftism, lined his country up on the Allied side, relaxed the government's historic anticlericalism by his famed statement, "I am a believer."

Died. Arthur Hammerstein, 82, old-time Broadway producer (Rose Marie, Naughty Marietta), son of Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, uncle of Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (Oklahoma!, South Pacific); in Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Demetrios Maximos, 82, Premier of Greece in 1947, head of a coalition cabinet directed against the Communist guerrillas; in Athens.

Died. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 87, "Father of Physical Culture," onetime publishing tycoon who bossed an empire of 13 magazines and ten newspapers (True Story, True Detective, Liberty, etc.) with a total estimated monthly circulation of 16 million; of jaundice, aggravated by a three-day fast; in Jersey City. The frail son of an alcoholic father and a tuberculous mother, Macfadden was an orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden's simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies without doctors, standing on your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing bed-boards, enriched flour, scanty swimsuits and sunbathing. He celebrated his 81st, 83rd and 84th birthdays by parachuting from aircraft, getting his brittle, still impressively muscular 5-ft. 6-in. body to earth without injury.

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