Born. To Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm), 23, doelike screen ingenue, and Vincente Minnelli, 38, her deft director in The Clock; their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Liza, Weight: 6 lbs, 10 1/2 oz.

Married. George Longan Arnold, 24, law-student son of sardonic Trustbuster Thurman Wesley Arnold; and Ellen Cameron Pearson, 19, daughter of gossipy Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, granddaughter of vituperative Washington Publisher Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson; in Georgetown.

Married. Ernest Hemingway, 47, burly, lately bearded (but not shorn) author of burly, hirsute, he-man prose; and Mary Welsh, 38, only woman correspondent with the R.A.F. in France before Dunkirk, later TIME Inc. correspondent in London; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Havana.

Married. Waldo Peirce, 61, bearded painter of healthy, bucolic scenes, much-married pal of much-married Author Hemingway (see above); and Ellen Antoinette Larsen, 25, fellow painter and fellow resident of Manhattan's Greenwich Village; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Pomona, N.Y.

Died. Philip Merivale, 59, India-born British actor whose large-browed head and furrowed features were familiar to U.S. playgoers for a generation in such varied vehicles as frolicsome Cynara and somberly historic Valley Forge; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nuernberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement.

Died. Marjorie Relyea Stokes, 76, one of the original "Floradora" sextet, who reversed the marital timetable of most Floradora girls by marrying a wealthy man (William D. Holmes, Andrew Carnegie's nephew) before her stage success; in Manhattan.

Died. Mabel Thorp Boardman, 85, queenly* humanitarian who in 40 years as unpaid national secretary of the American Red Cross built on Clara Barton's idea a world-famed organization with 29,000,000 member-contributors ; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington.

* She resembled Britain's Queen Mary so closely that when the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales, once saw her in Washington, he exclaimed: "Good Lord -- there's Mother!"

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