Born. To King Peter II, 21, of Yugoslavia ; and Queen Alexandra, 24, daughter of the late King Alexander of Greece: their first child, a son; in London. Name: to be announced at the christening.

Weight: 8 1/2 Ibs.

Born. To Loretta Young, 32, gazelle-eyed veteran cinemactress (Along Came Jones) ; and Colonel Thomas H. Lewis, 43, head of the armed forces radio service, onetime radio adman: their second son (they also have an adopted daughter); in Los Angeles. Name: Peter. Weight:

6 Ibs.

Engaged. Captain Mildred Helen Mc Afee, 45, keen-witted director of the WAVES, president of Wellesley College (where she spends about ten days a month); and the Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54, internationally known Congregationalist. Wellesley promptly advised that the Captain's marriage would not "affect the situation"; so did the Navy.

Married. Julius ("Groucho") Marx, 54, gabbiest of the lady-ogling Marx Brothers; and Catherine Mavis Gorcey, 24, singing starlet and ex-wife of deadpan Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey; both for the second time; in Hollywood.

Divorced. Corporal Clifford S. Heinz Jr., 25, grandson of the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz; by Elizabeth Bald Heinz, 26, Baltimore socialite; after seven years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles.

Grounds: desertion. Alimony: none.

Died. Dr. George W. Raiziss, 61, famed Russian-born chemotherapist, director of dermatological research at Philadelphia's Abbott Laboratories; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Dr. Raiziss developed Metaphen (one of the most potent antiseptics known), did important early research with the sulfa drugs, recently developed Diasone as a promising cure for tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 8, 1943).

Died. Edward Knoblock, 71, U.S. born, British-naturalized playwright, whose prolific pen supplied the theater producers with original stories, adaptations and collaborations (Kismet, Milestones, Grand Hotel), and briefly conjured for Hollywood (Douglas Fairbanks' The Three Musketeers); in London.

Died. Paul Valery, 73, famed French poet and philosopher, successor of Anatole France to the French Academy in 1925; of a heart ailment; in Paris. His infrequent, esoteric works (La Jeune Parque, Le Cimetiere Marin, Varetes I, II, III, IV) brought from his distinguished colleagues high acclaim, from lesser intellectuals charges of obscure pomposity, from himself the admission, "I am a difficult author -- it is my kind of beauty."

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