Divorced. Joe Pasternak, 50, Hungarian-born movie producer (Three Smart Girls, The Great Caruso); by onetime Movie Starlet Dorothy Hallenbeck (Dorothy Darrell), 31, who charged extreme mental cruelty, e.g., he criticized her before her friends; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Burbank, Calif.

Died. Philip G. Epstein, 42, who, with his twin brother Julius, made up one of Hollywood's top scenarist teams, chiefly as adapters of plays (The Man Who Came to Dinner), novels (Chicken Every Sunday) and short stories (My Foolish Heart), Oscar winners in 1943 for their screenplay of Casablanca; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

Died. Wilbur ("Fats") Henry, 52, athletic director at Washington & Jefferson College, All-America tackle on its 1917-19 football teams, once called by Walter Camp "the greatest lineman of all time"; of diabetes; in Washington, Pa.

Died. King George VI, 56; of a coronary thrombosis; at Sandringham House, Norfolk (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. William Howard Taft II, 64, Manhattan banker, a nephew of the late President and a cousin of the Senator; in Manhattan.

Died. Henry Drysdale Dakin, 72. London-born research chemist whose specialization in military medicine led to his development (with Dr. Alexis Carrel) of Dakin's solution, a sodium hypochlorite wound antiseptic which saved hundreds of lives in World War I, won him the grateful thanks of France when he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in Scarborough, N.Y.

Died. Norman Douglas, 83, who tried his deft hand at music, diplomacy, linguistics and science (zoology, geology, archeology) before he wrote, and sold in 1917 for a piddling -L-75, the novel South Wind, a perennially popular satiric classic that made him famous; of a stroke; in penury in a borrowed villa on the Isle of Capri. The son of a Scottish cotton-mill owner, Douglas first journeyed to Capri in 1888, on the trail of a rare species of blue lizard, fell in love with the island and made it his soul's operating base. In his middle 40s, he denounced Christian conventions as a sham, declared that Western civilization was inferior to Oriental culture, made a faint bow to convention by closing all letters to his son Robin with: "Brush your teeth twice a day!" He might have made a fortune from his annotated anthology, Some Limericks, but its obscenities would have made its open sale a criminal offense in Britain and the U.S. In describing a South Wind character, Douglas carved his own epitaph: "He knew too much, and had traveled too far, to be anything but a hopeless unbeliever."

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