Divorced. Jim Brown, 35, who followed a brilliant football career with the Cleveland Browns by tackling movie acting in such rousers as The Dirty Dozen and 100 Rifles; by Sue Brown, 35; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Cleveland.

Died. John Berryman, 57, poet; by leaping from a bridge near the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus, where he taught. Berryman was a consummate verbal technician who had a deep love affair with the blowziest aspects of 20th century popular culture. Robert Lowell said that Berryman's "universe is more tearful and funny than we can easily bear." To help himself bear temptation, Berryman became a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. His 77 Dream Songs won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize and four years later the National Book Award went to His Toy, His Dream, His Rest:

These songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.

They are only meant to terrify and comfort.

Died. Charles E. ("Electric Charlie") Wilson, 85, former president of the General Electric Co. and high-voltage mobilizer of U.S. industry during World War II and the Korean War; in Bronxville, N.Y. A product of Manhattan's seething Hell's Kitchen, Charlie Wilson earned $3 a week as an office boy at the Sprague Electric Co. in 1898, then rose steadily through the corporate ranks after Sprague was absorbed by G.E. In 1939 he took over as president, but three years later joined the War Production Board. Wilson returned to G.E. in 1944, where, aiming at the postwar market for toasters and refrigerators, he boosted production by 385%. He later served as Harry Truman's director of the Office of Defense Mobilization.

Died. Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, 93, pioneer efficiency expert and mother of the family described in Cheaper by the Dozen; in Phoenix, Ariz. Lillian Moller was working on the third of her 17 master's degrees and doctorates when she married Frank Gilbreth in 1904. The couple soon collaborated on several books (now considered efficiency primers), not to mention six sons and six daughters. Two of the children, Frank Jr. and Ernestine, wrote Dozen in 1949, describing the management techniques used in the Gilbreth household: a daily assembly call, a weekly family budget session, and a division of labor scheme whereby chores were assigned to the lowest bidder. During a lecture three years ago, Dr. Gilbreth pooh-poohed the burden of old age: "It's really a matter of marshaling your resources, using time sensibly."

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