Born. To Edward R. Murrow, 41, CBS' earnest, discerning European news chief; and Janet Brewster Murrow, 36, wartime London director of Bundles for Britain : their first child, a boy ; in London. Name: Charles Casey. Weight: 8 Ibs. 4 oz.

Married. Lucy Truman Aldrich, 21, daughter (third of four) of Winthrop Williams Aldrich, board chairman of whop ping Chase National Bank; and Army Lieut. David Wetmore Devens, 26; both for the first time ; in Manhattan.

Married. Captain Bruce Alva Gimbel, 32, ATCman and merchant princeling, eldest son of Bernard F., autocrat of all the Gimbels (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Ave., etc.); and Barbara Ann Poulson Caton, 24; both for the second time; in Long Beach, Calif.

Died. Luke Lea, 66, Tennessee politico, who at 27 captured a state Democratic convention, at 31 became a U.S. Senator, at 40 almost captured the Kaiser and at 55 went to jail for a bank fraud; of a gastric attack; in Nashville. In the famed 1919 attempt to abduct Wilhelm II, Colonel Lea and seven other Yanks, posing as newsmen, penetrated the exile's retreat before the Dutch wised up.

Died. Major Putnam Bradlee ("Putty") Strong, 71, onetime "handsomest man in the U.S. Army," whose sentimental jour neys (contemporary estimate: 41,339 miles) and subsequent nuptials with mad cap Actress May Yohe, then Lady (Hope Diamond) Hope, were accompanied by an international obbligato of tongue-clacking and ended in a 1910 divorce after she accused him of pawning $300,000 worth of her jewels; in University, Va.

Died. Eldridge Reeves Johnson, 78, founder of the Victor Talking Machine Co., who wearied of "His Master's Voice" in 1926 and sold out for a reputed $40,000,000; after a stroke; in Camden, N.J.

His Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation.

Died. Dr. Frank Michler Chapman, 81, father of the U.S. bird-sanctuary system, for 34 years the American Museum of Natural History's curator of birds, builder of the world's finest collection (750,000 specimens); in Manhattan. The most influential ornithologist since the great John James Audubon, gentle, ec centric Dr. Chapman -- who was a confirmed but surreptitious duck-shooter -- -once paid bird-loving statesman Lord Grey his highest compliment: "A charming host . . . just like a bird."

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