Died. Rev. Joseph P. Connor, 56, Roman Catholic parish priest and successful composer of popular songs (The Miracle of the Bells, When I Take My Sugar to Tea, By a Waterfall')', of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Teaneck, NJ. Pastor (since 1947) of St. Joseph of the Palisades Church, West New York, N. J., "Father Joe" wrote popular songs under the pen name Pierre Norman, under his own name wrote a mass in the Gregorian style. A member of ASCAP (American Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers) for more than 25 years, he gave royalties from his music to needy parishes.

Died. Dr. Juan Hortensio Quijano, 67, since 1946 Vice President of Argentina; after long post-operative illness; in Buenos Aires.

Died. Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the ninth Earl Fitzwilliam, 68, whose title and -L-1,000,000 ($2,800,000) fortune were the plums last year in one of England's costliest court actions; of heart disease; in Oakham, England. The childless peer's second cousin, Capt. W.T.G.W. ("Tom") Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, became next in line when Tom's older brother, George J. ("Toby") Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, failed to prove that his dashing Royal Horse Guards father was properly married to his actress mother before Toby was born.

Died. Ferenc Molnar, 74, playwright (The Swan, Liliom, The Guardsman, The Play's The Thing, and 38 others), novelist and raconteur; in Manhattan. A practicing newsman in his native Budapest for 22 years (until 1918), chipper, monocled Molnar Was sometimes called the "Hungarian Moliere." A Jew, he fled the Nazis in 1940, became a U.S. citizen. Recently, Communist-dominated Hungary labeled him a "western imperialist," banned his books, although Molnar avoided social and political comment and strove only for sophisticated entertainment. The successful playwright, he once said, must do "some swindling . . . Sometimes it is just cheating your conscience or compromising your values, but it is swindling, nevertheless."

Died. Fala, black Scottie, constant White-House companion of Franklin D. Roosevelt; two days short of his twelfth birthday; in Hyde Park, N. Y. In 1944, the dog became a campaign issue when Republicans charged that a destroyer had been sent to the Aleutian Islands to pick him up after a presidential trip. In the famed Teamsters' Union speech, his master replied: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them . . ."

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