Born. To Lieut. Colonel Lucius DuBignon Clay Jr., 29, wartime bomber pilot, elder son of the U.S. commander in Berlin, and Betty Rose Commander Clay, 23: their second child, a son; in Washington. Name: Lucius DuBignon III. Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz.

Born. To Veronica Lake, 29, blonde cinemactress; and second husband Andre DeToth, 35, director; their second child (her third), a daughter; in Los Angeles. Weight: 6 lbs. 4 oz.

Born. To Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 33, chichi Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"), and second wife Elizabeth Darrah Waters Loiewski-Cassini, 21, blonde ex-model: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Marina. Weight: 7 lbs. 15 oz.

Married. Second Lieut. Felix Anthony ("Doc") Blanchard, 23, hefty "Mr. Inside" of the Army's great wartime football teams,* now an Air Force fighter pilot; and Josephine ("Jody") King, 21, San Antonio socialite; in San Antonio, Tex.

Died. Major Jacob Daniel ("Japie") Smuts, 42, modest, gold-mining son of Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, who once served as his father's aide-de-camp; of meningitis; in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Died. Mary Eaton, 46, Ziegfeld Follies star of the '20s (a Broadway hit at 16, she also starred in Eddie Cantor's 1923 Kid Boots'); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles.

Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life.

Died. Royal Cortissoz, 79, sprightly, bang-haired veteran art critic (the New York Herald Tribune), painting's No. 1 champion of traditionalism ("Cezanne . . . never fully mastered his craft"); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. George McConnell, 93, oldtime Indian fighter and baseball player (legend credits him with originating the curve ball); in Los Angeles. Some 70 years ago, Billiard Fan McConnell reputedly discovered that "English" could be used on baseballs, then organized a ball team that was undefeated for several seasons before batters caught on.

* Second Lieut. Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis is an infantry officer in Korea.

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