Died. Thurman A. Whiteside, 50, the wealthy, wheeling-dealing Florida lawyer acquitted last fall of conspiring with ex-Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack to rig a Miami television channel award; by his own hand (a gunshot wound); in Miami.

Died. Ralf Torngren, 62, Finland's Foreign Minister since 1959, a mild-mannered peacemaker who, as Premier for five months in 1954 and Foreign Minister under two other governments, helped his nation preserve its precarious neutrality; of a heart attack; in Turku, Finland.

Died. John Temple Graves II, 69, writer and self-proclaimed professional Southerner, whose syndicated newspaper column championed segregation, states rights and plantation-era chivalry in nearly a score of Dixie dailies; of a heart attack as he ended a lecture deploring the whites' use of violence in his hometown of Birmingham; in Mobile, Ala.

Died. Samuel Briskin, 70, strongwilled, Russian-born philanthropist who recovered from a sinus condition that nearly killed him, founded the Revere Camera Co. (home movie cameras and projectors) in 1937, was board chairman until 1960; of cancer; in Chicago.

Died. George Wilson ("Molly") Malone, 70, dour, right-wing Nevada Republican, a onetime collegiate middleweight boxing champ who, during two U.S. Senate terms (1947 to 1959), flailed away at foreign aid, NATO, reciprocal trade, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, was one of Joe McCarthy's loudest backers and pride of the silver lobby; of cancer; in Washington.

Died. Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, 79, much-decorated naval veteran who fought vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England.

Died. Grace George, 81, buoyant and versatile comedienne from 1894 to 1951, who starred in the U.S. premiere of Shaw's Major Barbara, long managed the Playhouse repertory theater owned by her late producer husband, William A. Brady; in Manhattan.

Died. Jos'eph E. Howard, 94, veteran showman, author of 28 musical comedies, more than 500 songs (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), an ebullient entertainer for eight decades who married his ninth wife at 87, had just finished a benefit show, was blowing a kiss to his accompanist when he collapsed on the stage of the Civic Opera House; in Chicago.

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