Born. To Margaret Whiting, 26, strawberry-blonde jukebox and radio songstress (It Might As Well Be Spring, Slipping Around), and Louis F. Busch, 37, Capitol Record Inc. executive: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Deborah Louise. Weight: 9 Ibs. 2 oz.

Died. Ernest Haycox, 51, "the Somerset Maugham of the western," spinner of some 300 published Wild West yarns, including Union Pacific, Stagecoach; of cancer; in Portland, Ore.

Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays and bad.

Died. Pierre Roy, 70, whose gaily colored, meticulous paintings of unfamiliarly arranged familiar objects,won him recognition as a petit ma`itre (Little Master) of modern art; in Milan, Italy.

Died. John Jacob Raskob, 71, tycoon, onetime (1928-32) chairman of the Democratic National Committee; at his home near Centerville, Md. A cigarmaker's son who started out as a stenographer, Raskob arranged the deals that brought E. I. du Pont money into General Motors, became chairman of G.M.'s finance committee and a multimillionaire. An ardent Wet, he plunged into politics in '28 on behalf of his good friend and fellow Catholic Al Smith (until then he was a nominal Republican), wangled fat contributions to the Democratic cause, organized the National Committee publicity bureau that helped Franklin Roosevelt win in '32; two years later, angered by the New Deal, he quit the party.

Died. Michael Williams, 73, Roman Catholic author ( The Shadow of the Pope, The Catholic Church in Action), founder and first editor (1924-38) of the Commonweal; in Hartford, Conn. Onetime free-thinking crony of Socialist Upton Sinclair (they wrote a book together, Good Health and How We Won It), Williams returned to the church in 1915, became one of its ablest lay spokesmen.

Died. The Rev. Samuel Atkins Eliot, 88, longtime (1900-27) president of the American Unitarian Association, son of Harvard's famed President (1869-1909) Charles William Eliot; in Boston. An old-school liberal, Eliot advocated Protestant unity, championed the underdog (e.g., American Indians, prison inmates), confidently preached the progress of man.

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