Died. Gertrude Lawrence, 54, star of musicomedy (Lady in the Dark, The King and /-) and screen (Rembrandt, The Glass Menagerie); of cancer; in Manhattan (see THEATER).

Death Revealed. Francis Xavier Ford, 60, Maryknoll Bishop in China's Kwangtung province and missionary since 1918; after a year of Communist prison treatment; in Canton last Feb. 21 (see RELIGION).

Died. Gilbert Wolf Gabriel, 62, drama critic of Cue magazine, president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, novelist (/, James Lewis, I Thee Wed) and first writer of The New Yorker "Profiles" department; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

Died. DeWitt Clinton Poole, 66, onetime U.S. diplomat and educator; of a brain tumor; in Princeton, NJ. Stationed in Germany before World War 1, Poole was a consul in Moscow when the Russian Revolution broke, later was imprisoned briefly as the only U.S. representative in Bolshevik Russia. Resigning from foreign service in 1930, he helped organize the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, later became its director (1933-39)-Died. Joseph Avenol, 73, second (succeeding Sir Eric Drummond) Secretary General of the League of Nations (1933-40); of a heart attack; in Duillier, Switzerland. After visiting Mussolini in 1936, Avenol said he no longer believed the League could "regroup the forces that were moving away from it." In 1940, signing his resignation, he remarked sorrowfully that "the realities" of the times made his office unnecessary.

Died. Count Carlo Sforza, 78, twice (1920-21; 1947-51) Italian Foreign Minister, veteran diplomat and scholar (European Dictatorships, Europe and Europeans, Fifty Years of War and Diplomacy in the Balkans); after long illness; in Rome. Descendent of the 15th century Duke of Milan, Sforza was a frosty patrician but a liberal politician. His great diplomatic triumph was negotiation of the 1920 Treaty of Rapallo (severing Italy's claims on most of Dalmatia, recognizing the free city of Fiume), which settled a prickly Italo-Yugoslav boundary dispute. During the Mussolini dictatorship Sforza lived in exile, made lively literary assaults against the regime and King Victor Emmanuel, whom he once accused of going "slowly into prostitution" for // Duce. Among his last political goals: an association "without limit" of Western Europe, Canada and the United States.

Died. Henri Bourassa, 84, founder of Montreal's newspaper Le Devoir and lifetime fighter for French Canadian nationalism; in Outremont, Quebec.

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