Monday, Feb. 23, 1981

DIED. Olivier Rebbot, 31, French freelance photographer; of injuries received on Jan. 15 when he was shot by a sniper in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, while on assignment for Newsweek; in Hialeah, Fla. Rebbot was the second journalist to be killed and the third to be wounded this year in the civil strife in El Salvador. Another, American Freelance Writer John J. Sullivan, is missing and presumed dead.

DIED. Bill Haley, 55, singer and guitarist who combined blues, country and pop influences into a pioneering rock-'n'-roll style on such hit records of the 1950s as Rock Around the Clock, Shake, Rattle and Roll and See You Later, Alligator; presumably of a heart attack; in Harlingen, Texas. Haley and his band, the Comets, continued to tour the U.S. and Europe during the '60s and early '70s, but he was overshadowed by later rock performers whom he had influenced, including Elvis Presley and the Beatles.

DIED. Katherine ("Ketti") Frings, 61, versatile novelist, screenwriter and playwright whose film credits include Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) and The Shrike (1955), and who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for her stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

DIED. Julien Levy, 75, influential art dealer and writer whose gallery was a center during the 1930s and '40s for surrealism and neoromanticism, presenting the first New York exhibitions of such artists as Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Man Ray and Joseph Cornell; in New Haven, Conn.

DIED. Jack Zuinglius Anderson, 76, California rancher who was elected to seven consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1939, and later served President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a congressional liaison specializing in farm legislation; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Hollister, Calif.

DIED. James Doyle, 83, vice admiral who in 1950, while serving in the Korean War under General Douglas MacArthur, brilliantly commanded the amphibious landing of the First Marine Division at Inchon, leading to the liberation of Seoul from Communist troops, and later oversaw the two-week evacuation of 200,000 soldiers and civilians from Hungnam under heavy enemy fire; in Oakland, Calif.

DIED. Bruce Austin Fraser, 93, deceptively mild-mannered admiral who served from 1948 to 1951 as Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, after having distinguished himself in World War II through exploits like commanding the force that sank the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943; in London.

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