Divorced. By Millie Perkins, 24, slim, hazel-eyed Hollywood actress, who scored a hit three years ago in The Diary of Anne Frank: Dean Stockwell, 26, stage (Compulsion) and screen (Sons and Lovers) actor; after two years of marriage, no children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Santa Monica.

Died. Edgar H. Dixon, 57, president of the $1 billion Middle South Utilities .Inc., and the man in the eye of the 1955 Dixon-Yates storm over a $107 million contract to supply private power in the Tennessee Valley Authority area; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. After advocates of public power forced a Senate investigation, charging that it was all a scheme to cripple TVA, President Eisenhower was eventually forced to cancel the deal; Dixon vainly sued the Government for $1,867,454 that he claimed his company lost in the squabble.

Died. Richard Aldington, 70, controversial British biographer whose 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry inquired so deeply into the legends surrounding T. E. Lawrence, the World War I hero (in Aldington's view he was a liar and a fraud), that it brought cries of outraged protest from Lawrence fans the world over; of a heart attack; in Sury-en-Vaux, France. An expatriate who spent most of his life in France and Italy, Aldington wrote more than 40 books, including his brilliantly angry look back at World War I, Death of a Hero.

Died. George R. Fink, 75, crusty, autocratic U.S. steelmaker, who began as a 10-c--an-hour open-hearth laborer, rose to affluence as a steel salesman to Detroit's pre-World War I auto industry, went on to found Michigan Steel Corp. and Great Lakes Steel Corp., then merged them with two others to form National Steel, which under his presidency (1929-54) became the fifth largest U.S. producer; of generalized arteriosclerosis; in Grosse Pointe.

Died. Burton Edwin Shotton, 77, one of baseball's least noisy and best liked managers, who twice replaced Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as skipper of the Brooklyn Dodgers, taking over in 1947 after Durocher drew a season's suspension for feuding with Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail, and coming back again in 1948 after Durocher quit to manage the New York Giants, twice piloted the Dodgers to National League pennants; of a heart attack; in Lake Wales, Fla.

Died. Dean Bartlett Cromwell, 82, longtime track coach at the University of Southern California, who from 1909 to 1948 produced teams that won more national championships (twelve) and more individual honors (among his champions: World Record Sprinters Charlie Paddock, Frank Wycoff, Mel Patton) than any other coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

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