Died. Freddie Prinze, 22, comic and star of television's Chico and the Man; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles (see THE NATION). -

Death Revealed. Grace R. Garment, 49, TV writer and wife of former White House Aide Leonard Garment; by her own hand; on Dec. 3 in a cheap Boston hotel room. Mrs. Garment, who wrote scripts for ABC'S mystery drama The Edge of Night, had been under treatment for depression for eight weeks in a Manhattan psychiatric clinic. She checked herself out to spend Thanksgiving with her family, then fled from home eleven days later and disappeared.

Died. Bruce Hungerford, 54, Australian-born concert pianist and Egyptologist; in an auto accident; just after giving a slide lecture on Egypt at Rockefeller University in New York City. When he was pianist in residence at the Bayreuth Festival master classes, Hungerford recorded all the piano music of Richard Wagner. More recently he was acclaimed for his powerful, deeply sensitive interpretations of Beethoven, both in concert and on records.

Died. Bernard ("Toots") Shor, 73, Runyonesque saloonkeeper and drinking companion to the mighty and famous; of cancer; in Manhattan. Boisterous and beefy (250 lbs., 6 ft. 2 in.), Shor in his heyday would customarily quaff a bottle of brandy a night at the 54-ft. circular bar of his original Manhattan bistro. "Drinkin', that's my way of prayin'," he would say. Shor was a star-struck sports fan, and his friends ranged from the Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more than $60,000 on a World Series bet, and would carry down-and-out customers on the cuff for months on end. Master of the boorish putdown, he called his famous customers "creeps" and "crumb-bums." "If he doesn't insult you, he doesn't love you," Actor Pat O'Brien once said. "And if he doesn't love you, then you have missed a chunk of life."

Died. George Nauman Shuster, 82, Roman Catholic journalist-educator and president of New York City's Hunter College (1940-60); in South Bend, Ind. In 1951, Dr. Shuster admitted men for the first time as regular students to Hunter, once the world's largest public college for women. He wore many hats, editing the progressive Catholic weekly Commonweal for twelve years, working for UNESCO, which he helped create, and teaching English at Notre Dame, where he spent the last decade of his career as an in-residence savant and special assistant to the president.

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