Died. Mike Todd, fiftyish, producer in a plane crash; near Grants, N. Mex (see CINEMA).

Died. Claire McCardell, 52, vice president of Manhattan's Townley Frocks, Inc. creator of the casual American Look, "one of the few creative designers this country has produced," according to Dallas' Stanley Marcus; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Don Hartman, 57, independent film producer (Desire Under the Elms), onetime (1951-56) production chief at Paramount Pictures Corp.; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif.

Died. Arde Bulova, 69, chairman of the board of the Bulova Watch Co., Inc., who built the company from a small jewelry-making concern founded by his father in 1873 into one of the world's largest manufacturers of jeweled watches; after long illness; in Encino, Calif.

Died. John J. Parker, 72, chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (districts of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina), authority on state and federal constitutional law, the only man in this century whose appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate; of a heart attack; in Washington. In 1930, after his nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract (wherein new employees promise their employers in writing that they will not join a union). Parker explained that he was merely "following the law as laid down by the Supreme Court. I had no latitude of discretion in expressing views of my own." Adding to his troubles: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People feared that the North Carolina-born judge would be anti-Negro on the Supreme bench. The combined A.F.L. and N.A.A.C.P. lobbies were :nough to cause what the Washington Post recently called "one of the worst psychological lynchings in which the Senate has ever indulged." Showing no outward rancor, John Parker continued his brilliant service to American jurisprudence, no-ably in his support of the Supreme Court's decision against segregation.

Died. George S. Long, 74, dentist, Democratic Congressman (since 1953), Brother of Louisiana's onetime Governor Early Long and present Governor Earl Long, uncle of Senator Russell Long; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Frederic Herbert Maugham, 91, onetime (1938-39) Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, elder brother of Novelist Somerset Maugham; in London.

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