Born. To Francis Murray Patrick Mc-Mahon, 54, oil-rich Calgary wheeler-dealer (TIME, Jan. 14), board chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd.. and Betty Betz McMahon, 37, onetime Hearst teenagers' columnist: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Francine. Weight: 5 Ibs. 8 oz.

Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later in World War II commanded the Thirteenth Air Force in the Pacific.

Died. Dr. John Friend Mahoney. 67, longtime (1929-49) U.S. Public Health Service careerman, who developed the penicillin cure for venereal diseases early in World War II. won the American Public Health Association's Lasker Award for the work in 1946, in 1949 announced the complete success of his method, six years after he first used it to treat patients; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City.

Died. Kate Rockwell Matson ("Klondike Kate") Van Duren, 77, convent-educated hoofer who rode the crest of the Yukon gold rush as the best known of Dawson City's dance-hall dolls, wore a $1,500 dress and a tin-can tiara lit with candles as she coaxed slow pokes with high kicks, helped the boys whoop it up at $15 a pint for champagne; in her sleep; in Sweet Home, Ore. Kate always insisted primly that the gold-rushers treated her as a lady (the Mounties would not have it any other way), in 1933 married Old Sourdough Johnny Matson. who recalled her dollar-a-dance days, wooed her by mail from the Yukon. When Johnny died in 1947 she philosophized: "There's nothing left for me to do but mush on and keep smiling," married again a year later.

Died. The Most Rev. Jules Benjamin Jeanmard, 77, first Louisianian to become a Roman Catholic bishop (1918). who took a solid pro-integration stand in November 1955 by excommunicating two women in his Lafayette. La. diocese for assaulting a woman teacher of an integrated catechism class, lifted the ban a week later when they apologized; after making a final request that his body lie in state for one day at a Lafayette Negro church; in Lake Charles, La.

Died. Henry Norris Russell, 79, first-magnitude astronomer and longtime (1911-47) professor at Princeton University, who developed theories to account for giant-and dwarf-star groups, cheered Sunday supplement writers by theorizing that there could be millions of planets with some kind of life on them, collected a field marshal's array of gold medals from U.S. and foreign astronomical societies; in Princeton, N.J.

Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about it, too."

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