Born. To Nancy Bruff Clarke, 30, sightly authoress of bawdy, briefly best-selling Manatee, and Edwin Thurston Clarke, 51, Manhattan investment counselor: their first child, a son; in Manhattan, the day her first volume of poems (My Talon in Your Heart) was published. Name: Thurston Bruff. Weight: 7 lbs. 9 oz.

Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 56, once-great comedian who still gets into funny situations; and Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 20, only daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their second child, first son; in Santa Monica. Name: Michael John. Weight: 7 lbs. 8 1/2 oz.

Married. John Josiah Newberry, 68, founder and board chairman of the J. J. Newberry five-&-ten chain (49 stores); and Alice Malloy, 57; he for the second time, she for the first; in Boston.

Died. Dr. Antonio Caso, 62, philosopher, onetime rector of Mexico's National University, ofttime envoy (to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Reported last words: "Finally I am going to know."

Died. George Zerdin Medalie, 62, shorttime associate judge of New York State's Court of Appeals, longtime twister of the Tammany Tiger's tail; after a heart attack; in Albany. In 1933, Medalie passed on to Protege Thomas E. Dewey the U.S. attorneyship that put him on the high road to racket-busting fame and national political significance.

Died. William Henry Wills, 63, 1941-45 Willkieite Governor of Vermont who catch-phrased party diehards as "the four-year locusts of Republican politics"; of a heart attack; in Brockton, Mass.

Died. Edward ("Spike") Howard, 68, world's champion blood donor (1,100-odd pints); reportedly of a blood clot; in Philadelphia. A onetime (1922) "Strongest Man in the World," 240-lb. Spike bragged that his blood flowed in the veins of the best families (he gave some to the late President Calvin Coolidge's father, the ex-wife of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor George Earle), but was proudest that he had never sold a drop.

Died. Charles Waldron, 71, character actor, veteran of 400-odd roles (among his sinister creations: Edward Moulton-Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Senator Ellsworth Langdon in now-playing Deep Are the Roots); in Hollywood.

Died. John Cardinal Glennon, 83, Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis for 42 years, a Prince of the Church for 18 days; in Dublin (his native Eire), during a stopover on the long air voyage home from the Vatican (see RELIGION).

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