Born. To Bambi Linn (Linnemeier), 28, and Rod Alexander, 35, professional dance team (It's Great to Be Alive): a girl, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Belinda Linn. Weight: 6 1/2 lbs.

Died. Eugenio Castellotti, 26, wealthy Italian playboy and racing driver, who streaked to his greatest triumph by winning Italy's Mille Miglia last year; in a crash of his Ferrari during testing for the forthcoming Monaco race; in Modena, Italy.

Died. Stanley Arnold Odium, 41, of Atlas Corp., an investment firm headed by his father, Floyd Bostwick Odium; of hepatitis; in Manhattan.

Died. Ramon Magsaysay, 49, President of the Philippines Republic; in an airplane crash near Cebu, the Philippines (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Dr. Israel Rudolf Kastner, 50, Hungarian Jewish leader, and central figure in a lacerating controversy in Israel over charges of wartime collaboration with the Nazis (TIME, July 11 1955); of bullet wounds inflicted by terrorists on March 4; in Tel Aviv.

Died. John Middleton Murry, 67, British critic, author, editor, husband of short-story writer Katherine Mansfield; of a coronary thrombosis; in London.

Died. Mosha Pijade, 67, top Tito lieutenant for 20 years, leading theorist of Titoism, President of Yugoslavia's Federal People's Assembly; of a heart attack; in Paris, on his way home from a diplomatic mission to London.

Died. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, 68, flyer and explorer; of rheumatic heart disease; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Josephine (Sherwood) Hull, 71, dumpling-shaped character actress (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, The Solid Gold Cadillac) who modestly tapped fame at 55 ("I'm short and fat and funny, you know, and not easy to fit into a play"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Princess Helen of Greece, 75, formerly Grand Duchess Helen of Russia, granddaughter of Czar Alexander II (1818-81), mother of Britain's Duchess of Kent and widow of Prince Nicholas, third son of King George I of Greece; of a heart ailment; in Athens.

Died. Constantine Brancusi, 81, famed, bearded Rumanian sculptor whose polished bronze propeller-blade-like Bird in Space stirred a noisy controversy in 1926 when U.S. Customs officials tried to tax him for importing huge hunks of bronze "under the pretext of art"; of a heart attack; in Paris.

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