Divorced. Edward Mezvinsky, 37, recently re-elected Congressman (D. Iowa) whose role in the House impeachment inquiry drew national attention; and his wife Myra, 33; after twelve years of marriage, four daughters. sb

Marriage Annulled. Edgar M. Bronfman, 45, multimillionaire president of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams Ltd.; and the former Lady Carolyn Townshend; 33, willowy blonde English socialite; after eleven months of marriage; in Manhattan. In testimony at the trial, Bronfman charged that though they had had a long affair, Lady Carolyn refused to sleep with him after the wedding. She claimed she did-- once. The settlement provides for the return to Bronfman of a prenuptial gift of $1 million and alimony payments to Lady Carolyn of $40,000 a year for eleven years. Died. Erskine Childers, 68, Protestant President of the largely Catholic Republic of Ireland; of a heart attack; in Dublin. Son of an English officer who was shot as an I.R.A. "irreconcilable" in 1922, Childers was educated at Cambridge and worked as ad manager for Eamon De Valera's Irish Press before entering politics. After 35 years in the Dail and a series of Cabinet posts Childers succeeded De Valera as President in June 1973. His election contest had pitted him against the nephew of the man who ordered his father's execution. Childers labored to cool the hatreds racking Northern Ireland. "If my election can demonstrate that the Irish people are mature in their outlook," he said, "then I'm glad to be elected a Protestant President."

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Died. Dr. Erich Lindemann, 74, German-born psychiatrist who pioneered in the application of sociological techniques to the treatment of psychological problems; in Palo Alto, Calif. After counseling bereaved relatives of the 492 victims of the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, Lindemann produced a seminal study of grief and mourning. Later he directed the nation's first community mental health center in Wellesley, Mass. In 1957 Lindemann's study of slumdwellers uprooted from Boston's West End by urban renewal found that money could not compensate for the shattered web of ties to trusted friends and neighbors.

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Died. Clive Brook, 87, durable, debonair British actor; at his home in London. Brook's suave elegance, natty style, and clipped accent made him the celluloid paradigm of the English gentleman, and won him leading roles in more than 50 Hollywood films (among them Sherlock Holmes, Shanghai Express and Cavalcade).

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