Born. To Henry Luce III, 23, Hoover Commission staffer, and Patricia Potter Luce, 22, daughter of John S. Potter, an officer of the Bank of China: their first child (and first grandchild of TIME Editor Henry R. Luce), a daughter; in Washington. Name: Lila Frances Livingston. Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz.

Married. Cristobal de Carvajal, Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as the only descendant of Christopher Columbus, inherits the title of Admiral of the Indies; and Anunciada Gorosabel y Ramirez de Haro, 22, Madrid socialite; in Madrid.

Died. William Thomas Walsh, 57, leading Roman Catholic educator and author (Isabella of Spain; Saint Peter the Apostle), who won the 1944 Catholic Literary Award; after long illness; in Larchmont, N.Y.

Died. Charles O'Neill, 61, big-time coal dealer and top spokesman for the soft-coal operators in their perennial battle with John L. Lewis over contract negotiations; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Died. P. (for Philip) Hal Sims, 62, hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 300 Ibs.) contract bridge expert; after a heart attack; in Havana. Sims took up the game in the '20s, after thrice winning the National Amateur three-cushion billiards championship, matched an uncanny card sense with a ruthless application of psychology and technical skill to become one of the world's outstanding players. A longtime rival of Culbertson, Sims was a born sportsman and amateur gambler (whist, golf, poker, tennis, horses), once played 59 straight hours of bridge.

Died. Francis Edwin McMurtrie, 64, author, journalist (London Sunday Express), and since 1935 editor of the world-famed Jane's Fighting Ships, the exhaustive annual reference book on the world's navies; of cancer; in Hoddesdon, England.

Died. S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, 64, longtime chairman of the board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), successor to General Hugh S. Johnson as boss of NRA; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope.

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