DIED. Charles D. Tandy, 60, Texas industrialist who crafted a small leather business into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate; of an apparent heart attack; in Fort Worth. During World War II, Tandy noticed that disabled sailors liked leather-craft, and started marketing scraps and tools to hospitals through his father's shoe-leather company. By the early 1960s, he directed Tandy Corp., the nation's largest purveyor of handicrafts, and in 1963 added a bankrupt chain of ham-radio shops called Radio Shack that he eventually expanded into a company of 6,500 outlets, currently grossing more than $1 billion yearly.

DIED. Harry Bertoia, 63, Italian-born sculptor and furniture designer; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Barto, Pa. Bertoia first achieved recognition in 1952 when he unveiled his now classic chair: an upholstered, diamond-shaped wire shell sus pended in a steel cradle. He was later noted for welding metal rods and plates into dandelion-like bursts and honeycombed wall screens, and for creating his "sounding sculptures," clusters of wires and bars that turned sonorous when brushed by hand or wind.

DIED. Urbanus E. Baughman, 73, chief of the U.S. Secret Service from 1948 to 1961; of heart disease; in Toms River, N.J. As guardian of three U.S. Presidents, the chief once rated Harry Truman as his agency's greatest challenge. Explained Baughman: "He took all those walks, always out in the open, always exposed."

DIED. Gene Tunney, 81, former world heavyweight boxing champion who twice defeated Jack Dempsey before retiring undefeated in 1928; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn, (see SPORT).

DIED. Norman Rockwell, 84, beloved illustrator and artist famed for his tableaux of small-town American life and virtues; in Stockbridge, Mass, (see ART).

DIED. Janet Planner, 86, writer and correspondent whose "Letter from Paris," by-lined "Genet," appeared regularly in The New Yorker for almost 50 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Indianapolis, Planner worked briefly as a newspaper film critic and traveled throughout Europe before settling in Paris in 1922. Three years later, New Yorker Editor Harold Ross hired the American expatriate, and for the next five decades she filed erudite portraits of French society. A graceful, exacting stylist, Planner also wrote profiles on figures as diverse as Adolf Hitler and Queen Mary of England. "I act as a sponge," she once said of her job. "I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks."

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