Born. To Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 44, belligerent, trombone-tootling bandleader (the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing"), and third wife Jane New Dorsey, 26: their first child (his third), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Catherine Susan. Weight: 8 lbs. 9 oz.

Married. Darrylin Zanuck, 18, daughter of 20th Century-Fox's Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Gentleman's Agreement, Pinky); and Robert L. Jacks, 22, University of Southern California graduate ('49); in Covington, Ky.

Died. Russell Weisman, 59, self-styled "renegade Democrat" who opposed the New Deal through a double career as professor of economics at Western Reserve University and as daily columnist and editorial writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (circ. 273,914); after a heart attack; in Cleveland.

Died. Clarence ("Brick") Owens, 64, burly, veteran American League umpire who retired in 1937 after 35 years of calling 'em (including 22 years in the majors); of a heart ailment; in Chicago.

Died. William James ("Billy") Baskette, 65, composer-pianist, who wrote such topical tunes as the World War I hit Goodbye Broadway, Hello France and Prohibition's Everybody Wants the Key to My Cellar; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Los Angeles.

Died. Clyde Martin Reed, 78, onetime Kansas governor (1929-31), Republican Senator from Kansas since 1939; of a heart attack and a fall down the stairs; in Parsons, Kans. A onetime Bull Mooser, Reed was the trumpeting publisher of the Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The G.O.P. denied him renomination for governor in 1930. In retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted for the European Recovery Program, advocated the 48-hour-week and the open shop, never ceased harrying the New and Fair Deals with insistent cries for economy.

Died. Walter Runciman, Viscount of Doxford, 78, onetime Liberal M.P.,* President of the Board of Trade (1914-16, 1931-37); after long illness; in Chathill, England. In 1931 Runciman drafted, under Tory pressure, the emergency tariff that ended Britain's 80-year-old free trade policy; in 1938 he was unofficial mediator in the Czech-Sudeten pre-World War II crisis.

* In the 1899 House of Commons election at Oldham, he defeated Winston Churchill.

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