Born. To George O'Brien, 39, Hollywood horse-opera star; and Marguerite Churchill O'Brien, 29; a son, their second child. Weight: 9 lbs. Name: Darcy.

Married. Helen Carroll, 23, beauteous radio songstress ("the Merry Macs"), and famed hot Guitarist Carl Kress, 32, operator of The Onyx, famed hot Manhattan night spot; in Manhattan.

Married. Paula Stone, 25, second of famed oldtime Song & Dance Man Fred Stone's three actress daughters; and Duke Daly (real name: Linwood A. Dingley), 30, band leader; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. Dr. Elinor Whitney Fosdick, 27, physician-daughter of Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Manhattan's Riverside Church; and Dr. Sherman Roger Downs, 28, medical researcher; on Mouse Island, Me.

Married. Philip Dunne, 31, scenarist and son of the late great Humorist Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne; and Actress Amanda Duff, 25; in Virginia City, Nev.

Married. Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 32, and Elizabeth Marvin, 32. public-school teacher; on the first anniversary of his take-off for Ireland; in San Antonio, Tex.

Marriage revealed. Raymond Massey, Canadian-born actor (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), and Socialite Mrs. Dorothy Ludington Whitney; his third, her second; in Manhattan, four days after Actress Adrienne Allen divorced him (TIME, July 17).

Died. Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse (pronounced backhouse), 60, old-time British sea dog and First Sea Lord of the Admiralty from 1938 until his retirement last month because of ill health; in London. Fortnight before his death he was made Admiral of the Fleet by King George VI.

Died. James Weber Linn, 63, "most popular professor" at the University of Chicago where he taught English for 40 years, Illinois State Legislator, nephew and biographer of Jane Addams; at Lakeside, Mich.

Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high (28,200 ft.).

Died. Lapsley Greene Walker, 85, longtime editor of the famed Ochs-founded Chattanooga Times (1903-38), who crusaded against the Ku Klux Klan, for Repeal; in Chattanooga, Tenn.

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