Died. Anne de Gaulle, 18, invalid youngest child of Charles de Gaulle's three; of bronchial pneumonia; at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, France.

Died. Simeon Strunsky, 68, veteran New York Times columnist ("Topics of The Times"); after long illness; in Princeton, N.J. (see PRESS).

Died. John Keirn Brennan, 74, hit lyricist (Empty Saddles, Let the Rest of the World Go By, A Little Bit of Heaven), charter member of ASCAP; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles.

Died. Robert Burns Mantle, 74, retired dean of Manhattan drama critics (his prestigious yearly anthology of Best Plays covers every Broadway season from 1899 to 1947); of cancer; in Forest Hills, L.I. A newspaper typesetter in 1896, Burns Mantle was once unable to decipher a critic's longhand review, wrote one of his own, went on writing reviews until he retired in 1943. A kindly observer who occasionally risked being dull in his efforts to be fair, he advised his Daily News successor that Broadway was his oyster: "Season it with a dash of salt and a lot of pep--but go easy with the tabasco."

Died. Thomas William Lament, 77, financier, philanthropist, chairman of the board of J. P. Morgan & Co.; after long illness; in Boca Grande, Fla. Brilliant, quiet-spoken Tom Lamont worked his way through Harvard, rose to a Morgan partnership at 41. Once a reporter (New York Tribune, 1893-94), he continued to be fascinated by printer's ink, lost heavily in four years as owner of the New York Evening Post, backed the Saturday Review of Literature for 14 years, wrote one book of his own (My Boyhood in a Parsonage). Following World War I he shuttled about the world trying to put the financial pieces together (Dawes and Young plans), knew and advised the world's powerful (Clemenceau, Lloyd George). He made a pile of money (reportedly $500,000 in 1931), gave piles of it away, epitomized the U.S. ideal of the public-spirited tycoon.

Died. John, Viscount Sankey, 81, retired Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1929-35); in London. Slow-moving, conservative Sankey, shocked by miners' working conditions, became a labor hero in 1919 when as head of a special Royal Commission he recommended the nationalization of Britain's coal mines. .

Died. Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, 82, portly, jovial landowner (69,000 acres), sports patron, first of his line since 1787 to win his family's namesake horse race (with Sansovino in 1924; twice Secretary of State for War (1916-18, 1922-24); in Prescot, Lancashire, England.

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