Died. Reuben Buck Robertson Jr., 51, husky, shirtsleeved president (since 1950) of the Champion Paper & Fibre Co. of Hamilton, Ohio (1959 sales: $169 million), director of B. F. Goodrich Co. and Procter & Gamble Co., onetime (during the Korean war) member of the Wage Stabilization Board and former (1955-57) first assistant to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; in a traffic accident; in Cincinnati.

Died. Bretaigne Windust, 54, Paris-born U.S. theater director who, with such other unknowns as Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Joshua Logan, helped start the University Players and hit the big time after he directed Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (1936) and in Jean Giradoux's Amphitryon 38 (1937), went on --to stage Life with Father (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Finian's Rainbow (1947), and The Great Sebastians (1956); in Manhattan.

Died. The Most Rev. William Charles Quinn, 55, Roman Catholic Bishop (appointed in 1940) of Yukiang, China, who was expelled by the Chinese Reds in 1951; of a heart attack; in Kaohsiung, Formosa.

Died. Gino Sotis, 57, Italy's famed divorce-hating divorce lawyer, whose clients included Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, the Shah of Iran's ex-wife Fawzia, Barbara Hutton, and Mussolini's last mistress, Claretta Petacci; of a heart attack; in Rome.

Died. Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov, 65, Soviet Marshal of the Army and member of the Supreme Soviet, who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad and led the final assault on Berlin, later (1948) became commander of Soviet armored forces; in Moscow.

Died. Emanuel Slechta, 74, agile Czech politician, onetime aide to popular President Eduard Benes, longtime Socialist leader who survived the 1948 Communist coup, worked himself into the new order, became Minister of Construction in 1953; of a heart attack; in Prague.

Died. Archduchess Elizabeth Amalia of Habsburg, 81, mother of Prince Franz Josef II, who rules tiny (61.4 sq. mi., 13,757 pop.) Liechtenstein, niece of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, and half-sister of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

Died. Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, 84, Spanish portrait painter (among his subjects: ex-King Alphonso XIII, Portugal's Dictator Salazar), who headed the famed Prado Museum from 1921 to 1936, was succeeded by Pablo Picasso during the civil war, regained the post after Franco's victory; of a heart attack; in Madrid.

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