Born. To Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse, 55, pun -loving half of the writing-producing Lindsay & Grouse team (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace, State of the Union), and second wife Anna Erskine Grouse, 32, daughter of Author John Erskine: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Lindsay Ann Grouse. Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz.

Married. Edward Dmytryk, 39, ace Hollywood director (Crossfire) cited (with nine others) for contempt of Congress for refusing to tell whether he was a Communist; and Jean Porter, 24, player in B pictures; each for the second time; in Ellicott City, Md.

Died. Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington, 28, bright-eyed second daughter (of nine children) of Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime, (1937-41) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; in a plane crash; near Privas, France. The Marquess, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, was killed in action 18 weeks after their marriage in 1944, four weeks after her brother, U.S. Navy Lieut. Joseph P. Jr., was killed on an operational flight.

Died. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems. Irish-born Father Flanagan founded Boys Town in 1921 as a nonsectarian home for delinquents and orphans (his creed: "There is no such thing as a bad boy").

Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play it.

Died. James Edward West, 71, longtime Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (1911-43); of an intestinal disease; in New Rochelle, N.Y. An orphan lamed by tuberculosis, he was a veteran in social work and child-welfare reform when he took over the Scouts. Its membership was then 61,495 ; he helped build it to some 1,500,000.

Died. John Holmes Overton, 72, U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1933, creature of the late Huey Long, but no fellow traveler of Huey's brother, Earl, the new governor of Louisiana ; after an abdominal operation; in Bethesda, Md. Senator Overton distinguished himself chiefly by plugging ceaselessly for flood control and against daylight saving time.

* A first cousin of Senator Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa.

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