Monday, Sep. 22, 1952

Born. To Leonard Bernstein, 34, conductor, pianist and composer of symphony (Jeremiah), ballet (Fancy Free; Facsimile) and musicomedy (On the Town), and Costa Rica-born TV Actress Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, 30: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Jamie Anne Maria. Weight: 7 lbs. 3 oz.

Married. Horace Dwight Taft, 27, youngest son of Ohio's senior Senator, now a physics graduate student at the University of Chicago; and Mary Jane Badger, 22, whom he met while studying in Switzerland; in Washington.

Died. The Very Rev. Claude Willard Sprouse, 63, dean of Kansas City's Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral since 1931 and president of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies; of a heart attack; in Boston. Elected president of the House a second time by the church convention, Dean Sprouse had just finished his acceptance speech ("One great job . . . is to try to push this world a little bit nearer to the Kingdom of our Lord, Jesus Christ") and turned away from the podium, when he collapsed on the platform. Doctors were called from the audience, and the dean's wife and daughter hurried to the stage. Minutes later, as the Rt. Rev. Edward Welles, Bishop of West Missouri, spoke a final prayer, Dean Sprouse died.

Died. Admiral Jonas Howard Ingram, 65, Medal of Honor winner (at Veracruz in 1914), wartime commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, onetime star athlete at Annapolis and later (1914-17) the Naval Academy's football coach; of a heart attack; in San Diego. In 1906, as the Navy's fullback, he caught a forward pass, scored Navy's first victory over Army in six years. During World War II he was responsible for the nation's sea lanes from the Arctic to the Falkland Islands, once said of his job: "I had little butter and a hell of a lot of bread to spread it on." Retired from the Navy in 1947, he became commissioner of the All-American Football Conference (now part of the National Football League), later was named a vice president of the Reynolds Metals Co.

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