Died. Owen E. Brennan, 45, New Orleans restaurateur, owner of Brennan's Vieux Carre restaurant (a three-hour breakfast at $9.45), and the Latin Quarter landmark across the street, the Old Absinthe House (founded c. 1805); of a heart attack; in New Orleans.

Died. Dale Carnegie, 66, kingpin self-help author (How to Win Friends and Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living), founder of the Dale Carnegie Institute ("courses in Effective Speaking, Leadership Training and Human Relations"); of uremia; in New York City. As a $2-an-evening Y.M.C.A. public-speaking teacher in Manhattan, Carnegie discovered that what his students really wanted to learn was how to make a good impression on their bosses and friends. His institute boomed into a quasi religion whose 450,000 disciples were certain that he had pointed the way to success. In 1935, Publisher Leon Shimkin of Manhattan's Simon & Schuster persuaded Carnegie to collect his lectures. The result, How to Win Friends, sold 5,000,000 copies in the English editions, was translated into 31 languages (including a recent Burmese version by Prime Minister U Nu). Sample Carnegie maxims: i) let the other man feel the idea is his, 2) smile, 3) let the other man save face.

Died. Maurice Utrillo, 71, famed French painter of Paris street scenes and landscapes; of pneumonia; in Dax, France. Born in Montmartre, Utrillo was the bastard son of talented, scatterbrained Suzanne Valadon, who had worked as a circus acrobat, a model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir, and was later a top painter herself. An heir to the worst ills of bohemianism (legend has it that he was fathered by Renoir, Degas, or an alcoholic paint dauber named Boissy), Utrillo drank absinthe in his teens, was an alcoholic at 18, began painting in 1902 at the behest of his mother to keep him from drink. At the top of his form (the White Period, 1909-14), Utrillo painted the winding, empty streets and crumbling buildings of

Montmartre with a serenity that belied the circumstances of his life. In 1935 he married buxom Lucie Pauwels, who put water in his wine, dropped an iron curtain about him, appointed herself the caretaker and sole distributor of his flagging art.

Died. Sir Ronald Storrs, 73, longtime Governor of Jerusalem (1917-26) and Cyprus (1926-32), author (Orientations), who was credited by T. E. Lawrence with starting the revolt of the Arabs in the desert during World War I which hastened the fall of the Turkish empire; in London.

Died. August Vollmer, 79, pioneer in the use of modern U.S. police methods, professor of police administration (1932-37) at the University of California; by his own hand after he told his housekeeper: "I'm going to shoot myself; call the Berkeley police"; in Berkeley, Calif. As Berkeley police chief (1905-32), Vollmer perfected fingerprinting, handwriting analysis and traffic-control techniques, used the new lie detector, was first to put all the cops on the force into cars (earlier he had put them on bicycles), later reorganized the police departments of Los Angeles, Detroit, Havana.

Died. Major General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, 79, U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff in 1939, assistant director (1941-42) of the Office of Civilian Defense, head of the War Department's manpower board in World War II; in Washington, D.C. As manpower chief, General Gasser combed bases in the U.S., found 100,000 rear-area troops fit for combat duty. Later he toured Europe's U.S. communications zones, sent qualified rear-area troops into action to replace the 40,000 casualties of the Battle of the Bulge.

Died. Chief Iron Hail, 98 (otherwise known as Dewey Beard or Wa-Sue-Ma-Za), Indian of the Oglala Sioux, one of the last survivors of the battle of the Little Big Horn, General George A. Custer's famed last stand; in his tar-paper shack on the Pine Ridge Reservation, S. Dak.

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