Died. Arsenic H. Lacson, 49, maverick mayor of Manila (pop. 1,200,000) since 1951, a fiery reformer who became during three popularly elected terms what Philippine President Macapagal recently called a "national sentinel of public morality"; of a stroke; in Manila. Peppery Mayor Lacson--a former boxer, guerrilla fighter, lawyer, political-science professor, Congressman and newspaper columnist--cleaned up his tatterdemalion metropolis and became an acerbic presidential critic who crushed his Nacionalista Party mate, ex-President Carlos Garcia, and then started sniping at Liberal President Macapagal, whom he helped to power.

Died. William Thomas Waggoner Jr., 57, speed-happy heir to a $300 million Southwestern cattle-and-oil empire, who spent more than $1,000,000 building his unlimited (2,000-plus h.p.) hydroplanes Maverick and Shanty, which, despite endless mishaps, blazed their way to top U.S. speedboat records; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Died. Louise Fazenda Wallis, 66, gawky Hoosier screen comedienne of the silent days--and wife of Veteran Producer Hal Wallis--who starred in Keystone comedies as the farmer's tomboy daughter (her pigtails were insured for $10,000 by Mack Sennett). later mugged her hilarious way through some 300 Hollywood films in roles from Indian squaw to lady blacksmith without ever losing her gift of grimace; of a stroke; in Hollywood.

Died. Sir Frederick Handley Page. 76, pioneer builder of bombers, founder and chairman of Britain's first--and its last un-nationalized--aircraft corporation, Handley Page Ltd.. who designed multiengined R.A.F. warplanes from World War I's wood-and-linen type 0/400 to today's 600-m.p.h. Victor jet bomber, in peacetime invented the slotted wing, which blunderproofs planes against low-speed stalls; in London.

Died. Robert Woods Bliss, 86, adroit U.S. career diplomat, former Minister to Sweden (1923-27) and Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington, B.C.

Died. Thomas Bull, 96, courtly, wing-collared interior decorator, a Norwegian-born tastemaker whose elegant curlicues adorned New York's costliest mansions (among his clients: the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Woolworths) as well as Schrafft's restaurants, who outlived both his patrons and his style, never losing his firm distaste for wall-to-wall carpeting; in Manhattan.

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