Born. To Nancy Coleman, 26, cimemactress (Kings Row), and Hollywood publicity man Whitney Bolton, 44, onetime Manhattan dramacritic: identical twin daughters. Names: Charla Elizabeth, Grania Theresa. Weights: 4 lbs. 11 oz. each.

Divorced. By curvesome Joan Blondell, 34; crooning Dick Powell, 39; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. The grounds: cruelty. She said that when she objected to the incessant coming & going of guests, Powell crooned: "If you don't like it, you can get the hell out."

Died. Betty Compton (Mrs. Theodore Knappen), 38, onetime musicomedy star, onetime Mrs. James John ("Jimmy") Walker; of an illness which followed the birth of her first child (TIME, Jan. 31); in Manhattan.

Died. John Rippey Morris, 43, Far Eastern United Press manager since 1933, brother of Collier's managing editor Joe Alex Morris; after a twelve-story leap from his office window; in Manhattan. Morris had been about to return to India.

Died. Captain Frederick John Walker, 48, "Nelson of the little ships," crafty, courageous stalker of U-boats; of a heart attack; somewhere in England. A Navy man for 34 years, a four-time winner of the D.S.O., balding, sunken-eyed Walker led the Royal Navy's Second Escort Group, a flotilla of five sloops. His uncanny nose for pigboats netted his flotilla a score of 14.

Died. Sir Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, 57, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth since World Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell's death in 1941; in Herfordshire, England. In merit-badge circles. Scout Cocks was chiefly famed for first-aid work (he was onetime World War II Red Cross commissioner in Egypt).

Died. Bronson Winthrop, 80, Manhattan Old Guardsman, onetime partner of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the famed Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; in Syosset, Long Island.

Died. The Most Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, 83, San Francisco's longtime (1915-35) labor-arbitrating Archbishop; in Rome, where he had lived since his retirement. Smooth-faced, hook-nosed Archbishop Hanna's active 20-year leadership in West Coast labor reform climaxed in 1934 when he was the Roosevelt-appointed Chairman of the National Longshoremen's Board which raised dockworkers' wages, granted them a 30-hour week.

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