Died. Thomas Dooley, 34, flamboyant, hard-driving physician and humanitarian who won world fame while ministering to the medical needs of Southeast Asians; of cancer; in New York City (see MEDICINE).

Died. Lou Fageol, 54, crafty, daring king of speedboat racers and three-time winner of the Gold Cup; of a heart attack; in San Diego. Though he whooshed the big hydroplanes through the water for 27 years, Fageol insisted that each race "scared hell out of me," finally retired in 1955 after his Slo-Mo-Shun V soared 70 ft. into the air at 165 m.p.h., looped the loop, and dumped Driver Fageol into Seattle's Lake Washington with four fractured vertebrae, four broken ribs, a punctured lung and a permanently damaged heart.

Died. Major General Joseph Sladen Bradley, 60, who won the Silver Star at New Guinea's Buna Beach in World War II, commanded the 25th Division during its drive into North Korea in 1951; of cancer; in Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Died. Frank W. Taylor, 73, tough, crusading newsman who during a brilliant 27-year reign as managing editor of the old St. Louis Star-Times more than quintupled his paper's circulation, won the opposition Post-Dispatch's accolade as its professional "Public Enemy No. 1"; of a stroke; in Green Bay, Wis.

Died. Harry Piker, 75, New York-born entertainer who became a celebrity in the 19203 as the dancing partner of French Sex Symbols Mistinguett and Gaby Deslys, and who later switched to emceeing the live entertainment in Riviera casinos; of a heart attack; in Cannes, France.

Died. T/Sgt. Martin Maher, 84, a broguish Irish immigrant whose 50 years of duty at the U.S. Military Academy won him the lifelong affection of West Pointers ranging from John J. Pershing to Dwight Eisenhower, an unprecedented full-dress review of the Corps of Cadets upon his retirement in 1946, and a shiny screen biography (The Long Gray Line) in 1955; of a stroke; at West Point Army Hospital. As a mess waiter, nonswimming swimming coach and gym custodian, Maher was outranked but never outclassed by proteges who worked their way from bars to stars, but got their first fitness report from the mischievous "Marty." Among Marty's ratings: Pershing--"a holy terror, yet born to command"; MacArthur--"a genuwine genius"; Eisenhower --"the best back in Eastern football until he broke his knee."

Died. Archibald M. Main, 90, dean of U.S. naval architects who designed oceangoing yachts ranging from J.P. Morgan's Corsair to Harry Truman's Williamsburg, and whose Bath (Me.) Iron Works turned out nearly 25% of the U.S. Navy's World War II destroyers; in Bath.

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