Born. To William Samuel Paley, 48, board chairman and principal (19%) stockholder of Columbia Broadcasting System, and Barbara Gushing Mortimer Paley, 32, youngest of the late Dr. Harvey Cushing's three millions-marrying daughters: their second child, first daughter (each has two children by a previous marriage); in Manhattan. Name: Kate Gushing. Weight: 6 Ibs. 14 oz.

Married. Francis Joseph ("Muggsy") Spanier, 46, sad-eyed hot-jazz cornetist; and Ruth Gries O'Connell, 44, onetime advertising copywriter; both for the second time; in Chicago.

Died. John Miran Weeks, 30, wartime PT-boat skipper in the Pacific, contributing editor of TIME; in a train wreck at Rockville Centre, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Santiago Casares Quiroga, 59, Premier of Spain when the civil war broke out in 1936; in Paris. A moderate leftist, Casares Quiroga was so busy trying to deal with Communist-led strikes and sabotage that the Franco-led rebellion caught him unprepared. He resigned, joined the Loyalist Civil Guard as a private, ended as an exile in Paris and London.

Died. Jesse Clyde Nichols, 69, pioneering city planner who developed Kansas City's model, 5,000-acre Country Club District, longtime member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission; after long illness; in Kansas City.

Died. Representative Schuyler Otis Bland, 77, Virginia's white-haired perennial, one of the hardiest in the House (17 consecutive terms since 1918),*chairman of the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, longtime proponent of shipping subsidies; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Jay Witmark, 77, co-founder with older brothers Isidore and Julius of the Manhattan music publishing firm M. Witmark & Sons; in Manhattan. The three boys, 11 to 14, began printing business cards in 1883 with a toy press that Jay had won in school as a mathematics prize, published their first song in 1886. By 1928, when they sold out to Warner Brothers, they had published 24 Victor Herbert operettas, such raging hits as My Wild Irish Rose and Sweet Adeline.

Died. Tasker Lowndes Oddie, 79, Brooklyn-born onetime prospector who went west as a young man, struck it rich in salver, became a Republican governor of Nevada (1910-14) and a U.S. Senator (1921-33); in San Francisco.

-Only four Representatives, all Democrats, have been in Congress longer: Illinois' Sabath, since 1907; North Carolina's Doughton, since 1911; Texas' Rayburn, since 1913; Georgia's Vinson, since 1914.

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