Died. Lynwood Thomas ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 51, an affable giant (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) from Waco, Texas who was a high school star at golf, tennis, track-and-field and football before be coming an ace righthander for the Detroit Tigers from 1933 to 1942, relied on assorted amulets, including a broken jade elephant and a high-hopping spitball, during a spectacular 1934 season in which he won 24 games, 16 consecutively; of a heart attack; in El Dorado, Ark.

Died. Henry Morton Robinson, 62, onetime Reader's Digest editor and best-selling novelist, whose prolix portraits included purveyors of religion (The Cardinal) as well as purveyors of bourbon (Water of Life), and who confessed himself "delighted" with being called slick; of complications from burns suffered last month in a bathtub; in New York City. A protean penman, Robinson's nonfiction ranged from Private Virtue, Public Good, an anti-Rooseveltian treatise later reprinted in 1,000,000 copies after it appeared as a Digest article in 1938, to A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, an exercise in academic detection.

Died. Anne Meredith Bigelow, who never revealed her age (about 70), a Broadway chorine of the '20s who married the fourth Baron Sackville, became mistress of an 8,000-acre estate and a cavernous Tudor mansion with 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courtyards; of a heart attack; at the family seat, Knole, Kent.

Died. Samuel Dashiell Hammett, 66, seclusive insomniac whose tours-de-corpse (Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon) revolutionized detective fiction by taking murder out of the hands of English butlers and giving it back to the people who usually commit it; of chronic lung disease; in New York City. A onetime Pinkerton agent who hung on to his job only because of the literary quality of his reports, Hammett contracted TB while an ambulance driver during World War I and, while convalescing, perfected a bone-clean prose style perfectly suited to a brutal world of crime in which private cops were as tough and cynical as crooks. Success led inevitably to Hollywood, where, after creating The Thin Man, he doctored scripts, became a leader of the left-wing coterie. In 1951 he served six months in prison for refusing to tell a federal court the source of funds he had helped solicit for Communist Party bail jumpers.

Died. Winthrop Hiram Smith, 67, who started in 1916 as a $7-a-week runner for the fledgling brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch & Co., fashioned the company's 1940 merger with E. A. Pierce, its 1941 merger with Fenner & Beane, and in 1958 finally got his own name on the door of the world's largest international investment house as the directing partner, becoming board chairman a year later; of Parkinson's disease; in Litchfield, Conn. Modest but shrewd, Smith brought Main Street to Wall Street by directing a massive advertising drive aimed at turning middle-income families into a mass mar ket for securities, boosted Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's customers to 450,000 and its gross annual income to more than $136 million. To Wall Streeters painfully astounded by Truman's 1948 presidential victory, Republican Smith gave cool counsel: "It is not good economics to interpret personal surprise as economic catastrophe."

Died. Isabel M. Paterson, 75, fictional chronicler of society (Never Ask the End, The Golden Vanity) and longtime pungent critic and columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, who liked new styles in writing but detested new styles in politics enough to refuse social security benefits after tearing up her card; of a heart attack; in Montclair, N.J.

Died. Emily Greene Balch, 94, social worker, humanitarian and pacifist who won the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize after an energetic career that stretched back to 1915, when she and Jane Addams founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; in a Cambridge, Mass, nursing home.

Died. William Smith Mason, 94, historian and philanthropist who labored for 35 years to collect Benjamin Franklin's papers, donated the priceless collection to Yale in 1936; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

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