Born. To James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 47, North Carolina University cheerleader who became a bandleader and radio star (the College of Musical Knowledge), then retired to his old college town, and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 32, former model for Chesterfield ads: their third child, third daughter; in Durham, N.C. Name: Amanda Kay. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.

Engaged. Princess Josephine Charlotte, 25, sister of Baudouin, King of the Belgians, eldest child of ex-King Leopold III and the late Queen Astrid; and Grand Duke Jean, 31, heir to the throne of Luxembourg; in Brussels.

Died. Jacques de Menthon, 24, engineer son of the Council of Europe's President Franc,ois de Menthon; when he was buried by a landslide while working in a sand quarry; in Melun, France.

Died. Philip Murray, 66, Scottish-born coal miner who went to the pits when he was ten, in 1936 became chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and in 1940 president of the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in a San Francisco hotel room (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Gilbert Frankau, 68, onetime soldier, tobacco merchant turned novelist (Christopher Strong, Farewell Romance, The Dangerous Years) and war poet (The Guns); after long illness; in Hove, England.

Died. Arthur Stanley Riggs, 73, historian (The Romance of Human Progress, Titian the Magnificent, Velasquez) and longtime (1905-25) traveling lecturer on art, archeology and history; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Count Charles de Chambrun, 77, U.S.-born great-great-grandson of Lafayette (and thus an honorary U.S. citizen), longtime (1901-36) French career diplomat; of a kidney disease; in Paris. As Ambassador to Rome during the '30s, he became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance with "My Benito" by advising II Duce to get rid of her.

Died. Chaim Weizmann, 77, Russian-born son of a village timber merchant who became a world-famous chemist, leader of world Zionism and first President of modern Israel; in Rehovoth, Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Dr. Edgar Rudolph Randolph Parker, 80, U.S. chain-store dentist, whose ballyhooing techniques and easy professional ethics boomed his practice but outraged his colleagues; in San Francisco. Booted out of a New Brunswick divinity school for "bad misdemeanors and barefaced falsehoods" more than 60 years ago, he took up dentistry, practiced in Brooklyn, held street-corner lectures on oral hygiene and pulled teeth on the spot. In 1915 he changed his name, thereafter advertised himself as Painless Parker, Dentist. When death came he was running 27 offices on the West Coast, employing 75 dentists.

Died. Adolph Joachim Sabath, 86, Bohemian immigrant who became dean of the House of Representatives; of pancreatic cancer; in Washington, D.C. At 15, alone and broke, he arrived in the U.S., rode cattle cars to Chicago's seamy South Side, where he settled in the old Fifth Congressional District. By luck, pluck and helpful pushes from Cook County's Democratic machine, he was first elected to Congress in 1906. Two days before his death, he was re-elected for the 24th consecutive term--an alltime record. As chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee, he was a loyal New and Fair Dealer, had always worked tirelessly for immigrants and "common folks." He proposed a workmen's compensation law in 1907, an old-age pension bill in 1909, a wages & hours bill in 1912. He once explained the secret of staying in office: "Look out for the lobbyists . . . and don't forget to answer your mail--it's more important than cocktail parties."

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