Died. Mary Handlin, 62, social historian who, with her husband Oscar, a professor of history at Harvard, was coauthor of six books on American civilization; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. The Handlins in The Dimensions of Liberty (1961) explored the idea of freedom as defined in the U.S. In Facing Life: Youth and the Family in American History (1971), they traced the patterns of relationships within the American family, spanning 300 years, and concluded that the continually advancing age at which young people leave home has unfortunate consequences for everyone involved.

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Died. Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr., 64, commanding officer of the U.S. troops who liberated Saint-L6 after six long weeks of desperate fighting following their D-day landing at Omaha Beach; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A Virginia Military Institute graduate, Colonel Johns wrote The Clay Pigeons of Saint-Lo, which was an account of his World War II experiences. Perhaps his best-known military exploit came at the beginning of the Berlin crisis in 1961, when he successfully led a reinforcement convoy into the barricaded city.

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Died. Abby Rockefeller Mauze, 72, eldest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and sister of Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller; of cancer; in Manhattan. Thrice married, she dedicated much of her life to philanthropy. Among her beneficiaries were the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a tree-lined vest-pocket park called Greenacres, which she opened to provide "some moments of serenity" on Manhattan's bustling East Side. sb Died. Gordon Browning, 86, three-term Governor of Tennessee and six-term Congressman (1923-35); in Huntingdon, Tenn. Democrat Browning won his first term as Governor in 1936 with what he called the unsolicited support of the monarch of Memphis, Boss E.H. Crump. Once in office, Browning became a self-styled people's Governor, hammering at "the Boss" by pushing machine-mashing bills through the state legislature. His independent move cost Browning re-election in 1938, but he came bellowing back in 1948, the same year Estes Kefauver was elected to the U.S. Senate. Committed to God and segregation, Browning was Governor till 1953, when he was succeeded by Crump-backed Candidate Frank Clement.

Died. Martin Heidegger, 86, seminal German philosopher whose explorations of the nature of being influenced modern theologians like Reinhold Niebuhr as well as existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre; of circulatory disease; in Messkirch, West Germany (see EDUCATION).

Died. Dame Maggie Teyte, 88, petite red-haired English soprano who excelled in French art songs and opera; in London. In 1908 Claude Debussy coached her for her title role in his Pelleas and Melisande, which she was still singing at the age of 60. Her clear, controlled voice was not considered robust enough for the Metropolitan Opera, but she sang in smaller houses in the U.S., and her recordings of turn-of-the-century French songs by Debussy, Berlioz, Ravel and Faure are still rare collectors' items.

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Died. The Rev. Toby Crosby, 122, evangelist minister of the Church of Our Lord of the Apostolic Faith; in Palatka, Fla. Born a slave, last year Crosby was recognized by a society of centenarians as the second oldest American--after 133-year-old fellow Floridian Charlie Smith.

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