Died. Beniamino Bufano, 72, San Francisco sculptor and eccentric; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. As contentious as he was tiny (5 ft., 120 lbs.), Bufano was always in rebellion against something. During World War I he went so far as to send his self-severed trigger finger to President Wilson as a protest against war. His art was stable: colossal statues, with sweeping elliptical lines, were done in stone and metal. His themes ranged from a black cat named Tombstone to the soaring Peace at San Francisco's airport; but his favorite was St. Francis of Assisi, whom he did in about 150 versions, including a monumental St. Francis of the Guns, inspired by thousands of weapons, turned in to city authorities after Robert Kennedy's assassination.

Died. Eugene Barnett, 82, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association from 1941 to 1953 and a principal architect of its expansion around the world; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall in his home; in Arlington, Va. As a young missionary, Barnett traveled to China in 1910 to found a Y in Hangchow. His sincerity and austere brand of Christianity impressed China's emerging leaders, notably Chiang Kaishek. Returning home in 1937, Barnett presided over vast U.S. and world growth that by 1953 had brought the Y.M.C.A.s into 77 lands.

Died. General Archimede Mischi, 85, Mussolini's last army chief of staff, who led Fascist army operations against the partisans in northern Italy from March 1944 until April 1945; in Forli, Italy. Mischi added an intriguing footnote to history by reporting that Mussolini, on April 22, 1945, just six days before he was captured and shot, phoned him from Milan to order: "At all costs keep the road to Switzerland open for me."

Died. William Hamm Jr., 86, chairman of the Midwest's Hamm Brewing Co., who in 1933 made the headlines when he was kidnaped by the notorious Alvin Karpis-Ma Barker gang and only released after payment of $100,000; in St. Paul, Minn.

Died. Harry Overstreet, 94, author and lecturer who did much to popularize modern psychology and sociology; of heart disease; in Falls Church, Va. In numerous talks and books, most notably 1949's bestselling (500,000 copies sold by 1952) The Mature Mind, Overstreet sought to present in simple layman's terms the latest advances in human sciences. His technique seemed vastly oversimplified to some, but others found it both charming and instructive--as when he labeled the boy on the burning deck a moron, because "he did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation."

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