Died. Walt Kelly, 60, satirical cartoonist who populated the Okefenokee Swamp with the innocent opossum Pogo and his furry companions (see THE PRESS).

Died. Gene Krupa, 64, virtuoso drummer and bandleader of the swing era; of leukemia and heart disease; in Yonkers, N.Y. Krupa played in Chicago combos during the '20s and '30s until in 1935 he joined Benny Goodman's fledgling band and began to drum up wild applause for Sing, Sing, Sing and his flamboyantly athletic solos. Following his break with Goodman in 1938, Krupa led a number of his own big bands until 1951, then starred in trios and quartets.

Died. Bernt Balchen, 73, Norwegian-born aviator who in 1929 piloted Admiral Richard E. Byrd on the first airborne expedition over the South Pole; after a long illness; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. When World War II broke out, Balchen joined the U.S. Air Force and performed daring rescue missions in Greenland. After the war he was commanding officer of an air-rescue squadron in Alaska.

Died. Norman Chandler, 74, longtime publisher of the Los Angeles Times; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The third-generation member of a family that had run the Times since 1882, Norman Chandler established it as the West's leading (and the country's richest) newspaper. In 1960, after leaving the Times in the hands of his son Otis, he devoted himself to his Times-Mirror Co. and through a series of acquisitions (including the Dallas Times Herald, Newsday of Long Island and a variety of firms that produced maps, paperbacks and Bibles), built it into one of the largest publishing concerns in the U.S. With his wife Dorothy, the easygoing, silver-haired Chandler was the titular head of Southern California's best-known dynasty and so ardent a Republican that, as he once boasted of the Times in the 1940s, "if we gave the Republicans a big story, we'd give the Democrats a small one."

Died. Margaret Anderson, 82, high-spirited literary den mother who founded the Little Review in 1914 in which she introduced Americans to the works of such then-avant-garde writers as William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens; following a long illness; in Le Cannet, France. Although Anderson and co-editor Jane Heap were found guilty of publishing obscene material in 1918 when the Little Review carried several chapters from James Joyce's Ulysses, their publication continued to appear and make waves until 1929 when they quit publishing and retired because literature promised "repetitions only."

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