Died. Louis Washkansky, 55, recipient of the world's first transplanted human heart; in Cape Town, South Africa (see MEDICINE).

Died. Harold Holt, 59, Prime Minister of Australia (see THE WORLD).

Died. Stuart Erwin, 64, Hollywood and TV's most lovable boob; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. "Give me a nice goofy part any time," said Stu, and directors obliged with a lifetime of country bumpkins, soup-spilling waiters, and every other kind of all-American dope; critics applauded his rustic milkman in 1940's Our Town, his whimsical postman in 1942's Mr. Sycamore and, most recently, his performance in TV's The Trouble with Father.

Died. Stanley Stein, 68, crusader for public understanding of leprosy; of kidney failure; in Carville, La. Blinded by leprosy and confined to the U.S. Public Health Hospital at Carville, Stein founded in 1941 a bi-monthly magazine, the Star (circ. 25,000), to explain that leprosy is an arrestable and rarely contagious disease, and because of his efforts, Carville's patients now may vote and take a month's leave each year. Perhaps most important, he convinced the U.S. Government to abolish the dread word leper and use the term Hansen's disease.

Died. Alfred Jacobsen, 77, longtime (1929-65) boss of Amerada Petroleum Corp., biggest U.S. independent producer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "If you haven't the courage to lose," he warned, "stay out of oil." For Jacobsen (TIME cover, Dec. 1, 1952), the dry holes were few and far between; pioneering use of gravitational devices and seismographs, he found more oil than almost anyone else, uncorking in 1951 the massive fields in North Dakota's Williston Basin--deposits that swelled Amerada's annual net profit to $57.2 million by retirement in 1965.

Died. Carmen Melis, 82, celebrated Italian soprano; of heart disease; in Lon-gone Al Segrino, Italy. One of the alltime great interpreters of Puccini, she toured the world from 1902 to 1935, blending her spine-tingling voice with those of Enrico Caruso and Titta Ruffo in such operas as La Boheme, Tosca and Manon.

Died. Mary Willis Sinclair, 85, third wife of Author Upton Sinclair, a genteel Southern lady, whom he married in 1961, seven months after the death of his second wife; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Said Sinclair after the wedding: "First she said she wouldn't, then she said she couldn't, then she said I'll see." Replied Mary: "I didn't want him to have a child bride."

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