Birthdays. Joseph Stalin, his 61st, without public mention; Canada's Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, his 66th, with 66 roses from his Cabinet; Senhora Darcy de Vargas, wife of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, her nth (it is considered very poor taste to divulge a lady's age in Brazil).

Born. To Frau Joachim von Ribbentrop, wife of Nazi Germany's onetime champagne salesman Foreign Minister: a son, their fifth child; in Berlin. Other Ribben-tropchens: Rudolf, 19, Bettina, 18, Ursula, 8, Barthold, 5.

Engaged. Elizabeth Gray Morison, dark, pretty, seafaring daughter of HaVard's Sailor-Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (Second Voyage of Columbus); and Edward D. W. Spingarn, Trinity College economics instructor and son of the late great Critic-Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn; in Boston.

Married. Helen Rudd Owen, 20 daughter of ex-Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, and granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan; and Walter William Harris Jr.; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Francis Lederer, 34, dark-eyed Czech-American actor; by Margo (real name: Maria Margharita Teresa Guadalupe Castilla Bolado), svelte Mexican-born dancer who turned cinemactress (Crime Without Passion, Winterset); after three years' marriage; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., nomadic writer and onetime publisher; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; after six years' marriage, during which Mrs. Vanderbilt, his third wife, sought several times to file separation suits, was frustrated on each occasion because process servers could not locate the restless Vanderbilt trailer; in Carson City, Nev.

Died. Hal Kemp, 36, crack swing band leader; three days after he was injured in an automobile collision; in Madera, Calif.

Died. J. Sterling Getchell, 41, founder and head of J. Sterling Getchell, Inc., big Manhattan advertising firm which handles such accounts as Plymouth and Socony-Vacuum; of a streptococcus infection; in Manhattan.

Died. F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, who suffered a heart attack three weeks ago; author of This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, other books, stories of the "sad young men" of the postwar flapper era; in Hollywood.

Died. Carrie Belle Adams, 81, retired organist of Portland, Ore.'s First Congregational Church, most prolific U. S. composer of anthems (4,000); in Portland.

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