Born. To Herb Shriner, 35, homespun Hoosier radio-TV comedian-quizmaster (Two for the Money), and Eileen McDermott Shriner, 27: their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan. Names: Kin and Lark. Weights: 6 lbs 14 oz., 6 lbs. 9 oz.

Married. Army Corporal Edward S. Dickenson. 23, hillbilly captive of the Communists in Korea, first among 23 American P.W.s who, having refused repatriation, changed his mind and came home (TIME, Nov. 2); and Kate Laney, 21, neighbor's daughter; in Big Stone Gap, Va.

Died. Jorge Negrete, 42, top-drawer singing star of Mexican cowboy films and one of Latin America's favorite cinemactors, fourth husband (since last year) of Mexico's tempestuous Movie Queen Maria Felix; of a liver ailment; in Hollywood. As Mexicans openly mourned Film Idol Negrete's death, his widow declared "unsuitable" a two-engined transport plane sent by Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines to bring his body home from Los Angeles, instead chartered a four-engined American Airlines DC-6, planned an elaborate public funeral in Mexico City.

Died. Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, 52, deputy Navy ordnance chief and pioneer A-bomb weaponeer; of a heart attack, ten minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. (1945), three weeks later rode over Japan in the bomb bay of the B-29 Enola Gay to trigger the second Abomb, minutes before it was dropped on Hiroshima.

Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J., 64, longtime (1936-44) editor of the Jesuit weekly America (circ. 33,000), onetime president of Baltimore's Loyola College (1947-51) and chaplain-counselor of the Legion of Decency's movie-review committee; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Dr. Walter Ernest ("Doc") Meanwell, 69, longtime University of Wisconsin basketball coach (1911-17, 1920-34), who first developed the short pass, the crisscross, the dribble-and-block, to razzle-dazzle the opposition and help his teams win four Western Conference championships, share the title to four more; of cancer; in Madison, Wis.

Died. Francis Picabia, 75, wealthy, erratic French-born Cuban painter; of arteriosclerosis; in Paris. A bored, respectable success at 35, Picabia joined the madcap Dadaist revolt against tradition during the 20s, in 1950 enraged Paris critics with a deadpan display of canvases, each enlivened only by a colored dot placed just off center.

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