DIED. Joe Louis, 66, the legendary "Brown Bomber" who held the World Heavyweight boxing championship for nearly twelve years; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas (see SPORT).

DIED. Tennyson Guyer, 67, earthy, plain-speaking minister and Representative from Ohio's Fourth District since 1973, who was known for his speeches on inspirational and patriotic topics; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va.

DIED. James Hagerty, 71, able, candid press secretary and influential adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower between 1953 and 1961, who initiated such now routine news practices as regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings between the press and the President and the admission of newsreel and television cameras to presidential press conferences; of a heart attack; in Bronxville, N.Y. A former political reporter and press secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Hagerty joined ABC after leaving the White House, serving as a vice president until a stroke in 1975 forced him to retire.

DIED. Ivan Galamian, 78, internationally renowned teacher of violin who in 35 years at the Juilliard School of Music taught many of today's leading violinists, including Itzhak Permian, Pinchas Zuckerman, Kyung-wha Chung, James Buswell and Jaime Laredo; of a heart attack; in New York City. A stickler for technical detail who nevertheless encouraged each student to develop his own stylistic individuality, Galamian once said that he urged his charges "to study for the love of music, not with the hope of glory. People can get tired of glory, but not of something they love."

DIED. William Henry Vanderbilt, 79, farmer-philanthropist and sometime politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1938 to 1940 and was the great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th century railroad magnate; of cancer; in Williamstown, Mass.

DIED. Howard Thurman, 80, Baptist minister, educator and author who in 1944 left his post as a theology professor at Howard University to help found an interracial, interdenominational church in San Francisco called the Church for Fellowship of All Peoples, and whose many books on religion and race include Deep River: An Interpretation of Negro Spirituals (1946) and The Creative Encounter (1954); after a long illness; in San Francisco.

DIED. Caroline Gordon, 85, Kentucky-born novelist and critic who stringently portrayed traditional Southern life in such carefully crafted, often autobiographical books as None Shall Look Back (1937) and The Malefactors (1956); in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico.

DIED. Arthur Mayer, 94, Harvard-educated movie maven and entrepreneur who was a leading publicist in Hollywood's early days, then became known in the 1930s as the "Merchant of Menace" for exhibiting lowbudget, moneymaking horror movies at the famous Rialto Theater in New York's Times Square and who also helped import such classic "art" films as Open City (1945), Paisan (1947) and The Bicycle Thief (1948); in New York City.

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