Born. To Rudolph Halley, 40, lawyer, TV star (the 1950-51 Kefauver Crime Committee hearings), president of the New York city council and Liberal Party candidate for mayor, and Janice Brosh Halley, 33, his third wife (his first and second wives divorced him): their first child (his third), a son; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ibs. 12 oz.

Married. Rita Hayworth, 33, cinemactress (Salome); and Dick Haymes, 35, Argentine-born Hollywood crooner (One Touch of Venus); both for the fourth time; in Las Vegas, Nev. (see PRESS).

Died. Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart Fitz-James y Falco, 74, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Spain's wartime ambassador to the Court of St. James's; after long illness; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Grandest of Spain's grandees, he owned castles in almost every major city, had some 65 titles, including that of Duke of Berwick (a Stuart title not recognized by Britain). When civil war broke out in 1936, the Anglophile Duke sought to swing Britain to Franco's cause. After World War II, he disputed Franco's right to rule, favoring a return to monarchy, but, too powerful to be exiled, returned to Spain to live out his old age.

Died. William Woodward, 77, millionaire Wall Street banker and breeder of thoroughbred race horses, whose Belair Stud farm produced three Kentucky Derby winners (Gallant Fox in 1930, Omaha in 1935, Johnstown in 1939); in Manhattan.

Died. Margaret Anna Bird Insull, 80, widow of Samuel Insull, onetime Midwest utilities czar; in Chicago. A noted Broadway beauty, she married Insull in 1899, and became a princess of Chicago society. She tried in vain to make a stage comeback at 42, ten years later sank $200,000 in a benefit production of The School for Scandal. In 1932, when the $3 billion Insull empire disintegrated, she fled to Europe with her husband, later urged him to surrender and face trial on charges of fraudulent bankruptcy and embezzlement. During Insull's famed trials and acquittals (1932-35), she stuck loyally by him, after his death in 1938 sold her furs and jewelry, spent her remaining years in comfortable obscurity on Chicago's North Side.

Died. Edith Conway Ringling, 84, widow of Circus Founder Charles Ringling (who died in 1926) and board chairman (since 1950) of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus; in Sarasota, Fla.

Died. Edward Julian Nally, 94, pioneer developer of U.S. radio, who became first president of Radio Corp. of America (1919), and established the first transatlantic commercial radio circuit (1920); in Bronxville, N.Y.

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