Born. To Michael Straight, 31, rich editor of the struggling New Republic* and Belinda Crompton Straight, 27, New York University medical student: their third child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Susan Romilly. Weight: 8 Ibs. 15 oz.

Married. Robert Walker, 29, perennial movie juvenile (See Here, Private Hargrove, The Clock); and Barbara Ford, 24, studio film cutter and daughter of Director John Ford (The Informer, Fort Apache); in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. Irving McNeil Ives, 52, New York's up & coming G.O.P. Senator; and Mrs. Marion Mead Crain, 46, his secretary; each for the second time (his first wife died last year); in Bethesda, Md.

Married. Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry F. Gerguson), sixtyish, bugle-nosed, professional phony (he has claimed to be the assassin of Rasputin, a son of Victorian Prime Minister Gladstone, a cousin of Czar Nicholas), now a Beverly Hills restaurateur, who gave his age as 48; and Gloria Lister, 24, his ex-secretary; each for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 49, chancellor of the University of Chicago; by Maude Phelps Hutchins, forty-fiveish; after nearly 27 years of marriage, three children; in Chicago.

Died. Georges Bernanos, 60, royalist French novelist who blamed his country's ills on it & bourgeoisie; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Paris. An ardent Roman Catholic, Bernanos in 1936 won the French Academy's Grand Prix with Diary of a Country Priest.

Died. Vice Admiral Russell Willson (ret.), 64, tall, elegant wartime deputy (1942-43) to COMINCH Ernie King and military adviser to the U.S. delegations at Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. Admiral Willson organized the Navy's communications during World War I, retired as adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after World War II to become associate editor of World Report.

Died. Maud Alice ("Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy.

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