Died. John Cogley, 60, Roman Catholic journalist and author (Catholic America); of a. heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. At various points in his career an editor of Commonweal, a liberal Catholic journal, and founder of the Center Magazine, the journal of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Cogley also served as an aide in John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign and was instrumental in engineering a meeting between Kennedy and a number of prominent Protestant clergy in Houston, which defused Catholicism as a campaign issue. Late in life (1973), Cogley left the Catholic Church because of its positions on such matters as birth control and was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, preferring to be "a fully affirmative Anglican than a yes-but Catholic."

Died. Rube Bloom, 73, self-taught jazz pianist and composer whose songs include Give Me the Simple Life, Truckin ' and Fools Rush In; in Manhattan. Bloom first stepped into the jazz spotlight in 1928, when he won a Victor Records contest with his hit Song of the Bayou, and stayed there for decades.

Died. Richard Arlen, 75, romantic leading man who soared to stardom as a World War I aviator in Wings, a 1927 spectacular that won the first Oscar; of emphysema; in North Hollywood. Arlen appeared in some 250 films in a 50-year career that he claimed began with an unusual lucky break--a broken leg, incurred on the Paramount lot, where he was a motorbike-riding messenger boy. Sympathy brought recognition and a chance to act.

Died. Max Ernst, 84, surrealist painter and sculptor whose prophetic vision of art made him a seminal figure in the irreverent Dada movement and later in surrealism; after a long illness; in Paris (see ART).

Died. Paul Strand, 85, American photographer who created "candid camera," or unposed photographs, by attaching a brass lens to the side of his camera and working at right angles to fool his unsuspecting subject; in Orgeval, France. Strand broke with the soft-focus romantic tradition, aiming instead at social realism and commitment. His series of still lifes of New England, the Maine coast and Western towns, as well as such famous photographs as the Blind Woman and The Family, attest to his goal of seeing "something outside myself --always. I'm not trying," he explained, "to describe an inner state of being." In the 1920s and '30s he made documentary films, including The Wave, which portrayed a Mexican fishermen's strike.

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