Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, Maine's Democratic governor, and Jane Gray Muskie, 29: a second daughter, third child; in Augusta, Me. Name: Melinda. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.

Married. Patti Page, 29 (real name: Clara Ann Fowler), chunky jukebox choraler (Tennessee Waltz, Doggie in the Window); and Dance Director Charles O'Curran, 42; she for the second time, he for the third (his first: Cinemactress Betty Hutton); in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Gig Young, 38 (real name: Byron Barr), screen (The Desperate Hours) and stage (Oh, Men! Oh, Women!) actor; and Elizabeth Montgomery, 23, daughter of Actor-TV Impresario Robert Montgomery; both for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Preston Thomas Tucker, 53, fast-talking auto designer who tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build it.

Died. Percy Marks, 65, onetime Brown University English instructor who intoxicated the '20s with The Plastic Age, a near-beer novel of college loose life compounded of watered-down Freud and hoked-up Fitzgerald; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn. Novelist Marks quit teaching after his book got banned in Boston (1924), became a bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound-pounding a terrible tom-tom, the saxophones moaning and wailing, the violins singing sensuously, shrilly as if in pain, an exquisite, searing pain . . . Close-packed the couples moved slowly about the gymnasium, body pressed tight to body, swaying in place--boom, boom, boom, boom."

Died. Sevellon Brown, 70, grammar-school-educated longtime editor (1920-53) and publisher (1942-54) of the lofty-minded Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, and founder (1946) of Columbia University's American Press Institute; of a stroke; in Tucson, Ariz. Newsman Brown, who took over from an editor (John Revelstoke Rathom) who followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months to avoid the evils of monopoly, Sevellon Brown regularly hired bright young men with graduate degrees (and paid so little that many quit after a short hitch), spent much of his time trying to raise the nation's standards of newspapering. Publisher Brown's own standard: "A newspaper has to be more honest than anybody who works for it or anybody who publishes it."

Died. Ruth Draper, 72, who dazzled New York and London audiences with her lavishly peopled monologues for more than 40 years, impersonated a Scottish immigrant, Maine swamp Yankees and rubbernecking American tourists with sympathetic satire; in her sleep, five days after she opened a four-week Broadway engagement; in Manhattan.

Died. William Addison Dwiggins, 76, top-ranking U.S. type designer, who produced the clean, legible Metro newspaper type and the Caledonia and Electra book faces, fulminated at U.S. banknote design: "It is worth its face in gold, but my God, what a face!", wrote the authoritative book, Layout in Advertising; after a stroke; in Hingham, Mass.

Died. Robert Sterling Clark, 79, publicity-shy Singer Sewing Machine heir, sportsman (his horse Never Say Die won Britain's Epsom Derby in 1954), scholar and art collector; after a stroke; in Williamstown, Mass. Collector Clark quietly salted away a vast store of art treasures for most of his life, in 1955 began to display his collections publicly at the air-conditioned, superbly lighted Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a $3,000,000 free public museum in Williamstown (TIME, May 7).

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