Born. To Albert ("Flip") Rosen, 28, crack third baseman for the Cleveland Indians and last season the American League's Most Valuable Player and home-run king (43 homers), and Terese Ann Rosen, 23: their first child, a son. Name: Robert Terrell. Weight: 7 Ibs. 3 oz.

Married. Elizabeth Chambers Firestone, 31, oldest daughter of Rubber Tycoon Harvey S. Firestone Jr.; and Charles F. (for Fountain) Willis Jr., 35, aide to White House Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Arthur Koestler, 48, Hungarian-born ex-Communist writer of political novels (Darkness at Noon) and politico-mystical essays (The Yogi and the Commissar); by his second wife, Mamaine Paget Koestler, 36; after almost four years of marriage, no children; in London.

Died. Major Henry Shaw Beukema, 29, son-in-law (since 1944) of General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, son of West Point's Geopolitician Colonel Herman Beukema; when his Thunderjet fighter crashed into the York River, near Williamsburg, Va.

Died. Humphrey Hume Wrong, 60, topflight Canadian diplomat, Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, and former (1946-53) Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Ottawa.

Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune.

Died. Sydney ("The Fat Man") Greenstreet, 74. British-born stage comedian turned Hollywood cinemenace (The Maltese Falcon, The Hucksters, Malaya); after long illness; in Hollywood.

Died. Princess Margarethe of Hesse, 81, sister of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, widow of Count Friedrich Karl of Hesse, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army authorities tracked down the thieves and most of the treasure, found a pile of the missing jewels in a locker in Chicago's Illinois Central Station.

Died. The Rt. Rev. Paul Clement Matthews, 87, longtime (1915-37) Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey; in Winter Park, Fla. Always a staunch foe of birth control, Bishop Matthews also denounced Prohibition, once declared: "Life is not the product of law ... If the people are not temperate, no law will make them so."

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