Born. To Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 37, his swashbuckling father's son (The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din), and Mary Lee Epling Fairbanks, 36: their third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melissa. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.

Divorced. Milton Berle, 39, radio's tireless teller of famed old jokes; by Blond Beauty Joyce Mathews, 27; after six years, one child (adopted); in Reno.

Died. Gerard Barnes Lambert Jr., 35, only son of Yachtsman Gerard B. Lambert, former president of the Lambert (Listerine) Co. and onetime executive chairman of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; in an air crash; near Bryce Canyon, Utah (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Gerard Jr. was the fourth of his clan to be killed in an airplane crash (1927: cousin James T. Walker Jr.; 1929: cousin George Lea Lambert; 1939: cousin Samuel B. Lambert).

Died. Robert Anderson ("Wild Horse Bob") Crosby, 50, battered "King of the Cowboys"; in a jeep accident; near Roswell, N.Mex. During his 26 years as a rodeo star, prosperous Rancher Crosby broke almost every bone in his body, became undisputed champion in the sport by thrice making high score at the giant Pendleton (Ore.) and Cheyenne (Wyo.) rodeos.

Died. Dudley Digges, 68, veteran character actor; after a stroke; in Manhattan. One of Dublin's original Abbey Players, wry-eyed, roly-poly Digges came to the U.S. in 1904, stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh.

Died. Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton, 71, diplomat, grandson of Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (The Last Days of Pompeii); of a heart attack; in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Lord Lytton, whose father as Viceroy proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India, was Viceroy himself for four months in 1925 and headed the League of Nations' futile 1932 peace mission to Manchuria.

Died. Carlo Cardinal Salotti, 77, Bishop of Palestrina; of a liver ailment; in Rome. A Cardinal since 1935, for the past nine years he had been Prefect of the Congregation of Rites (the organization which prepares argumentative evidence for & against the creation of new saints and blesseds). A persuasive orator, he had previously served as Promoter of the Faith ("The Devil's Advocate"), whose role is to argue as persuasively as possible against the candidate for canonization.

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