Died. Thomas E. Dewey, 68, three-term Governor of New York and twice a Republican presidential nominee (see THE NATION).

Died. Leland Hayward, 68, flamboyant Broadway producer; of a stroke; in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Hayward's career began in the 1920s, when he produced some 20 feature films. "They stunk," he said, and people agreed. In the mid-'20s, a nightclub owner wished aloud that he had an attraction "like the Astaires," adding that he would pay $4,000 for them. Hayward promptly turned agent and arranged the deal. "I decided this was my line of work," he said after collecting his 10% commission. After that, he steered the careers of James Stewart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn--also such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber and Ben Hecht. In 1944, he moved to Broadway, producing or co-producing, among other hits, A Bell for Adano, South Pacific, Gypsy, The Sound of Music.

Died. Bebe Daniels, 70, film star of the 1920s and '30s; of lung cancer; in London. Born into a theatrical family, she made her stage debut when her mother carried her onstage at the age of ten weeks. At four she was a trouper; at seven she was in movies. "Whatever I missed as a child," she once said, "I didn't mind missing." At 14 Bebe became Harold Lloyd's leading lady and at 18 achieved stardom after she signed with Cecil B. De Mille, later playing opposite Wallace Reid and Rudolph Valentino. She married Actor Ben Lyon, moved to London in 1936 and when war broke out, volunteered her services to the BBC. The first woman civilian to land in Normandy after the invasion, she interviewed G.I.s on the front lines. The couple spent most of the postwar period in Britain and during the '50s did a radio program called Life with the Lyons.

Died. Winthrop L. Biddle, 74, penniless scion of the fabulous, prosperous, numerous Philadelphia Biddles; in an auto accident; in Haddon Township, N.J. Rejecting the family fortune, Biddle chose a drifter's life. He was killed by a hit-run driver while pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings down a country road.

Died. Hans Kohn, 79, prolific Prague-born historian; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Author of some 30 books, Kohn warned that nationalism, if not peacefully channeled, results in totalitarianism and dictatorship. As a lecturer at Harvard and at Smith College, Kohn struggled "to get people excited over the right things. People need excitement, so they turn to Marilyn Monroe. Or they turn to storm troopers or to Stakhanovism, and these we must object to!"

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