Born. To U.S. Army Lieut. Jean Bekessy (Author "Hans Habe" of A Thousand Shall Fall), 32, and Eleanor Close Sturges Gautier Rand Bekessy, 32, Post Toasties heiress, daughter of Mrs. Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies: a son, Antal Miklos; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 lb. 11 oz.

Married. Dorothy McGuire, 25, heart-faced stage & screen actress (Claudia)] and John Swope, 35, vice president of Southwest Airways, son of General Electric director Gerard Swope; each for. the first time; in Hollywood.

Died. Julius ("Jules") Bledsoe, 44, famed Negro baritone who introduced Ol' Man River; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Born in Texas, he studied singing in the U.S. and abroad, left Columbia University in 1924 for the concert stage, in 1927 clicked in the first edition of Show Boat.

Died. John Hargis Anderson, 46, president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, critic of Hearst's Journal-American; of meningitis following a sinus operation; in Manhattan.

Died. Dmitri Hitch Ulyanov, 69, physician, onetime revolutionary, youngest brother of the late Nikolai Lenin; in Gorky, Russia. He was twice jailed before the Communist Revolution made him Vice Commissar of the Crimean Soviet Republic.

Died. Sir Patrick Duncan, 72, Governor General of the Union of South Africa since 1937; of cancer; in Pretoria. A grey-thatched, firm-lipped Scot, Duncan studied at Oxford's Balliol College, became a barrister of the Inner Temple, entered colonial service in 1894. He rose to be Minister of the Interior, Public Health and Education (1921-24), was the first South African citizen to become Governor General.

Died. Ellen Graham Bassel Davis, 74, wife of John W. Davis, Manhattan lawyer and onetime (1924) Democratic Presidential candidate; after long illness; in Locust Valley, L.I. In London during her husband's Ambassadorship after World War I, she was judged the handsomest embassy hostess in 50 years.

Died. Grenville Kane, 89, last surviving founder of tony Tuxedo Park; in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. A Manhattan lawyer (later director of many railroads), he helped Tobacconist Pierre Lorillard III plan the 400's baronial super-suburb in 1881. Descended from early American landlords (the Irish O'Kanes), Kane was the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, oldest member of New York's arch-Republican Union League Club.

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