DIED. Lucas Tupper, 45, Franciscan missionary doctor whose practice embraced 200,000 Brazilian villagers along the Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope).

DIED. William S. Schlamm, 74, Polish-born writer and a former Communist who turned into a staunch conservative during the 1930s; of a heart attack; on Sept. 1, in Salzburg. Immigrating to the U.S. before World War II, Schlamm served as an editor of FORTUNE and assistant to Henry Luce in the 1940s, and in the 1950s helped create and edit National Review. Returning to Europe, he founded his own political magazine, Zeitbuhne, in West Germany in 1972.

DIED. Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser, 83, former board chairman of Weyerhaeuser Co., and uncle of its current president, George, victim of a highly publicized kidnaping in 1935; in St. Paul. The Yale-educated grandson of the company's founder, Weyerhaeuser worked his college summers in sawmills and after graduation moved into lumber sales, becoming the firm's chairman in 1955. Mindful of the need to replant his forests, Weyerhaeuser once observed that there are few men "who are willing to plunk down $1 million every year on ventures that won't pay off until the middle of the next century."

DIED. W. Randolph Burgess, 89, former Treasury Department Under Secretary and U.S. Ambassador to NATO during the Eisenhower Administration; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Schooled as a statistician, Burgess worked as a banker in New York for more than 30 years, first at the Federal Reserve, then at National City (now Citibank), before joining the Treasury in 1953. As Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, he favored tight money policies, a balanced national budget and the gold standard. He resigned in 1957 when appointed NATO Ambassador, serving until 1961.

DIED. Etienne Gilson, 94, renowned medieval philosophy scholar (among his works: History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages) and oldest member of the French Academy; in Cravant, France. Gilson, son of a Paris businessman, was a devout Roman Catholic who gained lasting distinction in his field for his writings on St. Thomas Aquinas. Though he lectured at universities throughout France and the U.S., the Sorbonne-trained philosopher taught primarily at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, which he helped launch in 1929.

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