Born. To Yvonne de Carlo, 34, sultry brunette cinemactress (The Captain's Paradise), and Robert Drew Morgan. 41, Hollywood stunt man: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Bruce Ross. Weight: 7 lbs. 7 oz.

Died. Francis John Myers, 54, plodding, Fair-Dealing onetime (1945-51) Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, three-time (1939-45) Congressman (West Philadelphia), Senate whip in the 81st Congress and floor leader for Adlai Stevenson at the 1952 Democratic National Convention; of leukemia; in Philadelphia.

Died. Judge Rubey Mosley Hulen, 61, U.S. District Court jurist who presided at the recent trial of Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, onetime Truman Administration officials convicted last month (TIME, June 25) of conspiring to fix a Government tax case, and who was scheduled to sentence them next week; of a gunshot wound in the head while on his backyard pistol range; in St. Louis.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter William Van Kirk, 64, globetrotting head (since 1950) of the National Council of Churches' Department of International Affairs, co-founder (with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles) of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (1946), longtime (1925-50) executive secretary of the Federal Council of Churches' Department of International Justice and Goodwill, special adviser to the U.S. delegation at the founding (1945) of the United Nations in San Francisco, onetime (1934-49) popular radio commentator (NBC's Religion in the News) and sometime author (A Christian Global Strategy); of a heart attack; in Thousand Island Park, N.Y.

Died. Giovanni Papini, 75, brilliant Italian philosopher (A Finished Man) and biographer (Dante Vivo, Michelangelo), author of the bestselling Life of Christ (1921), a celebrated but intensely personal act of repentance by which he tried to atone for his early, noisy atheism; after long illness; in Florence, Italy. A revolutionary turned ascetic, near-blind Author Papini dallied with the Devil nearly all his life ("My relations with the Devil are very ancient ... It seems to me important that men should know him intimately"), made emptiness of the soul his province with his bleak rendering (1931) of Gog ("Is not bread perhaps the only thing that nourishes man, the only truth in the world?"). Long after his return to Roman Catholicism, Papini could still write hopefully in il Diavolo (1953): "Theological treatises will continue to say no to the doctrine of a total and final reconciliation [between God and the Devil], but the heart, which 'has reasons which reason knows not of,' will go on yearning for and expecting the answer to be yes."

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