Born. To Elissa Landi, 39, novel-writing stage and screen actress; and Curtis Kinney Thomas, 38, author; their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Caroline Maude Landi Thomas. Weight: 6 lbs., 14 oz.

Married. Nancy Dabney Roosevelt, 21, daughter of Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt; and Ensign William Eldred Jackson, 25, only son of Supreme Court rustice Robert H. Jackson; in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

Married. David Mdivani, 44, last-surviving of the three "Marrying Mdivanis," oil speculator; and Virginia Sinclair, 29, daughter of Oil Tycoon Harry Sinclair; he for the second time, she for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Francis Schmidt, 58, fast-talking, hard-driving football coach of Ohio State's 1939 "razzle-dazzle" Big Ten champions; after long illness; in Spokane, Wash. He once spurred his Buckeyes to a long-sought victory with a classic locker-room line: "Michigan boys put on their pants one leg at a time same as you do."

Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand in 1931 and Shutout in 1942.

Died. Earle Westwood Sinclair, 70, longtime president of Sinclair Oil Refining Co.; after a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his partner-brother, dashing Harry Sinclair (see above), was bogged down with the trials and tribulations of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, he quietly managed and built their business into one of the world's great oil empires.

Died. James Edward ("Pa") Ferguson, 73, homespun, gallus-snapping Texas politico; of apoplexy; in Austin, Tex. In 1917, during his second term as Texas' Governor, he was impeached for using state funds to pay private debts. Barred from further office-holding in Texas, Pa sponsored his wife "Ma" on a bargain billing, "Get two Governors for the price of one." Ma served two terms as Governor (at public functions she always slipped off her shoes to rest her bunions), signed over 3,000 pardons on Pa's advice.

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