Divorced. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, 62, multimillionaire horseman, and his third wife, former Chicago Socialite Jean Harvey, 38; after 18 years of marriage, three children; in an uncontested proceeding in Manhattan. The divorce followed almost two years of separation, during which Vanderbilt was seen frequently on and off the track with comely Jockey Robyn Smith, 29, who often rides wearing the cerise and white silks of Vanderbilt's Sagamore Farm stables.

Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts.

Died. Dame Barbara Hepworth, 72, British abstract sculptor; in a fire that ravaged her studio at St. Ives, Cornwall. A fellow traveler with the small band of venturesome Britons--including Sculptor Henry Moore and her second husband, Painter Ben Nicholson--who pioneered abstract art in the 1930s, Hepworth established her trademark in 1931 when she pierced a hole in a small carving to seize the viewer's eye. "I thought it was a small miracle," she later recalled. "A new vision was opened." Holes and hollows, sometimes painted to accentuate their depth, turned up in most of her 500 sculptures, among them such characteristically involuted, smoothly chiseled figures as Kneeling, Winged Figure, and Single Form, her massive, 21-ft.-high bronze memorial to Dag Hammarskjold at the United Nations. Drawing inspiration from the cliffs and curving shores of Cornwall as well as the human form, Hepworth regarded her work as "essentially practical and passionate; my whole life expressed in stone, marble, wood and bronze."

Died. Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove, 75, fireballing Hall-of-Fame pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox from 1925-41; of an apparent heart attack; in Norwalk, Ohio. With his searing fastball, Grove regularly humiliated the most feared batters of his day, including Babe Ruth, whom he held to just nine home runs in ten seasons. Grove's two-season peak of 59 wins and only nine losses in 1930-31 remains unequaled, and so, for that matter, does his sizzling temper. Lefty often loudly chewed out teammates as "hitless wonders" after close losses, or "butterfingered s.o.b.s" when they committed errors. Just before he retired at 41, in 1941, he became the first pitcher in the "live ball" era to win 300 games.

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