Born. To Franchot Tone, 38, smooth, high-domed cinemactor, ex-husband of Joan Crawford; and Jean Wallace (Walasek) Tone, 19: a son; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 lb. 5 oz.

Born. To T. L. Soong, 50, Chinese financier, younger brother of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Maying Hsi Soong, 24, daughter of Te-mou Hsi, representative in Washington, of China's Ministry of Finance: a daughter, their first child; in Washington. Weight: 7 lb. 10 oz.

Born. To Frederick Fisk Bulkeley, 76, father of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley, PT-boat hero (They Were Expendable), and Virginia Douglas Bulkeley, 42, his second wife: a son, their first child; in Bayonne, N.J. Weight: 6 lb. 8 oz.

Birthday. Benito Mussolini, 60; quietly; perhaps in jail.

Married. Army Air Forces Captain Dean Davenport, 25, Tokyo raid copilot, squadron commander of South Carolina's Columbia Army air base; and Mary McMaster Lowry, 22, OPA secretary; in Columbia, S.C.

Married. Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer, 39, owner and publisher of New York's pale pink Post; and Theodore Olin Thackrey, 42, the Post's editor since 1942; each for the third time; a week after she divorced former Post Publisher George Backer; in Manhattan.

Married. Josef von Sternberg, 49, magniloquent discoverer and first director of Marlene Dietrich; and Jeanne Annette McBride, 21, his brunette ex-secretary; he for the second time; in Hollywood.

Divorced. Edward Beale McLean, 25, son of Hope Diamond-decked Evalyn Walsh McLean, rococo Washington hostess; by Ann Carroll Meem, 24, daughter of Washington Banker Harry Grant Meem; after five years of marriage; in Reno. He will marry Gloria Hatrick, a Manhattan model.

Died. The Rev. Ernest Lynn Waldorf, 67, since 1932 Resident Bishop of the Methodist Church's Chicago Area, where he guided a flock of 1,000,000; of a liver ailment; in Alexandria Bay, N.Y.

Died. Cora Smith Wilk, 81, mother of Mrs. Wendell Willkie; of heart disease; in Rushville, Ind. She was the daughter of a Civil War captain, a student at Indiana's De Pauw University.

Born. To Keyfield Wendy, 5, black Scottie, mother of F.D.R.'s photogenic Fala; and Champion Tatterthun Model, 18 mo.: one Fala brother, four sisters; in Wilton, Conn.

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