Died. George Schlee, 63, husband of Dress Designer Valentina, better known as Greta Garbo's companion for the past 15 years, who managed a very European menage `a trois, smoothly explaining to his wife, "I love her, but she will never want to get married, and anyway you and I have so much in common"; of a heart attack; in the suite that he and Garbo were sharing at Paris' Hotel Crillon.

Died. Eddie Cantor, 72, comedian, philanthropist, author of three autobiographies, whose purse-mouthed, popeyed, hand-clapping routines delighted three generations of Americans; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born Izzy Iskowitz on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Cantor sang, danced and joked his way to stardom on Broadway (Banjo Eyes) and in Hollywood (Kid Boots), pioneered live comedy on radio and TV, set the U.S. humming such ditties as Ida and Oh How She Can Yicky Yacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Stricken with heart trouble in 1952, grieved by the death of his wife and eldest daughter, he donated most of his later years and many of his millions to charity. But charity had always been a big thing with Cantor; he was instrumental in founding the March of Dimes in 1936.

Died. Dr. Winfred Overholser, 72, specialist in criminal psychiatry and longtime superintendent (1937-62) of Washington's St. Elizabeths (mental) Hospital, who believed that the mentally ill are not responsible for their crimes, in 1957 won a point when he persuaded the U.S. Government to drop treason charges against Poet Ezra Pound, testifying that Pound's wartime broadcasts "were the result of incurable insanity"; after a long illness; in Washington.

Died. The Very Rev. Jean Baptiste Janssens, 74, Superior General of the 33,000-member Society of Jesus (Jesuits) since 1946; of complications following a stroke; in Rome. An austere Belgian, Janssens was best known for the General Congregation he called in 1957 to propose that his own absolute authority be diluted, but which came to nought after Pope Pius XII warned that obedience should not be replaced by "a 'democratic equality' in which subjects argue with their superiors."

Died. Eugene Varga, 84, Soviet economist, who in 1946 stunned the Communist world--and discredited himself--by writing that 1) the U.S. would not suffer a severe postwar depression, 2) capitalist nations would not necessarily undergo revolution, and 3) Communism and capitalism could coexist, views that eventually returned Varga to grace after Stalin's death, when the Kremlin revamped its party line; in Moscow.

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