Born. To Roger Gilbert Bannister, M.D., 27, the first four-minute miler (3:59.4), and Portrait Artist Moyra Jacobsson Bannister, 27: a daughter, their first child; in London. Name: Carol Erin Elver. Weight: 7 lbs. 11 oz.

Married. Susan Hayward (real name: Edythe Marrener), 37, red-haired cinemactress (I'll Cry Tomorrow); and Floyd Eaton Chalkley, 47, Carrollton, Ga. attorney and auto dealer; both for the second time; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Divorced. Rex Harrison, 48, lean, British-born actor who plays Phoneticist 'Enry 'Iggins in the musicomedy My Fair Lady; by brunette Actress Lilli Palmer, 42, who co-starred with him (1950-51) on Broadway in Bell, Book and Candle; after 14 years of marriage, one son, three days after Harrison took a four-week leave from Lady, journeyed to Hollywood to join his good friend. Cinemactress Kay (Genevieve) Kendall; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Miguel Covarrubias, 53, energetic, popular Mexican caricaturist of the '20s and '30s (for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker), painter, anthropologist and art historian (Island of Bali, The Eagle, the Jaguar and the Serpent); of septicemia; in Mexico City.

Died. John von Neumann, 53, Hungarian-born mathematician, member since 1955 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; of cancer; in Washington, B.C. (see SCIENCE).

Died. Willard Saxby Townsend, 61, onetime Chicago redcap who began organizing railroad porters in 1934, fought to gain employee status for redcaps (until 1938 most were paid entirely in tips), formed the International Brotherhood of Red Caps in 1937, brought his union (renamed the United Transport Service Employees) into the C.I.O. in 1942, later (1955) became one of two Negro vice presidents of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; of a kidney ailment; in Chicago.

Died. Walther Wilhelm Bothe, 66, Prussian-born nuclear physicist who in 1930 produced unexpected radiation by bombarding beryllium with alpha particles, and thus led to the discovery of the neutron, in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his development and use of the "coincidence method" of measuring time with billionth-of-a-second accuracy; after long illness; in Heidelberg, West Germany.

Died. Zechariah Chafee Jr., 71, longtime defender of civil liberties, top U.S. authority on equity law, and professor (1919-56) at Harvard University; after a heart attack; in Boston. A diffident Yankee from a wealthy Providence clan, Zack Chafee taught Harvard Lawmen

Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish and Joseph N. Welch, wrote and spoke widely on civil rights but disliked being tagged a "fiery liberal," called himself a conservative "with an old-fashioned concern about the Bill of Rights."

Died. Cecil Elaine Highland, 80, wattled, egg-bald tyrant of Clarksburg, W. Va., who controlled the town for years through his morning Exponent and evening Telegram by imposing a complete news blackout on people, issues and organizations he did not like (TIME, April 23); of a heart attack; in Clarksburg. Publisher Highland battled daylight-saving time, a sewage-disposal project, improvement of schools and playgrounds, radio (by refusing to print even paid program listings), television (by thundering that a proposed coaxial cable could annihilate children, burn homes), kept virtually all Republican news out of the Democratic Exponent, all Democratic news out of the Republican Telegram, and politics of any brand out of the non-partisan Sunday Exponent-Telegram.

Died. Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, 88, strongman of Hungary from 1920 to 1944; in his sleep; in Estoril, Portugal, where he had lived since 1948. A younger son of petite noblesse, Horthy became a naval cadet at 14, rose rapidly, was made admiral of the Austro-Hungarian fleet after he faced down a mutiny late in World War I. In 1920, as the apocalyptic Red Terror of Leninist Bela Kun burned itself out. Horthy seized Budapest, got himself declared Regent of Hungary, earned the enmity of his country's liberals by letting the bloody White Terror reaction to Kun go unchecked. Virtual dictator of Hungary in the '20s and '30s, Horthy in 1940 made his country the Axis powers' first small-nation ally, in 1944 was deposed and brought to Germany by Hitler for seeking a separate peace, stayed in exile when Communist control of Hungary prevented his return.

Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"--grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads got broken by the hardwood chairs in Competitor Texas Guinan's ginmills, served 30 days in 1931 after Feds raided her 58th Street Country Club, went broke after Repeal and spent her last 20 years in a one-room Manhattan apartment.

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