Born. To Mary Spencer Churchill Soames, 29, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 31, Conservative M.P. for Bedford: their third child (and Churchill's eighth grandchild), a son; in Westerham, Kent. Weight: 8 Ibs.

Married. Johnnie Ray, 25, sobbing composer-crooner (The Little White Cloud that Cried); and Marilyn Morrison, 22, brunette daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner; in Manhattan. Most of the wedding party shed a few tears, but the groom was all smiles until he broke down to sing a chorus of Cry for a teen-age delegate from a Brooklyn fan club.

Married. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 44, fifth-generation head of the Krupp arms-making dynasty (from Napoleon to the Nazis), whose twelve-year sentence (in 1948) for war crimes was cut short last year; and Martha Vera Wilhelmina Knauer, German-born U.S. citiztn; in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

Divorced. By Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore, 22, daughter of the late John Barrymore and oldtime Cinemactress Dolores Costello: Thomas Alexander Fairbanks, 26, writer-hopeful who, she charged, "refused to work because only peasants work"; after two years of marriage, one daughter; in Hollywood.

Died. John Garfield, 39, tough-guy actor of stage (Golden Boy, Awake and Sing) and screen (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Body and Soul); of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see CINEMA).

Died. Charles Fulton Oursler, 59, best-selling author (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written), newspaper columnist ("A Modern Parable" in 65 papers), playwright (The Spider), whodunit writer (under the pseudonym Anthony Abbott), editor in chief (1931-42) of Liberty magazine, editorial, boss (1941) of all Macfadden Publications, and (since 1944) a senior editor of Reader's Digest; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once an agnostic, Oursler visited Palestine in 1935 and wrote A Skeptic in the Holy Land ("I started out being very skeptical, but in the last chapter I was nearly converted"). Eight years later he joined the Roman Catholic Church, from then on devoted most of his writing time to religious subjects.

Died. Frances Benjamin Johnston, 88, onetime news photographer who had an inside track to the White House because of her friendship with Presidents Harrison, McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt; in New Orleans. With a boxlike camera given to her by George Eastman in 1887, she snapped such shots as McKinley on the eve of his assassination and Admiral Dewey after Manila.

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