Monday, Jul. 08, 1957

Born. To Lowell Thomas Jr., 33, explorer, photographer, author (Out of This World, 1950), son of the radio commentator, and Mary Taylor Pryor Thomas, 29, his co-traveler: their first son, second child; in Manhattan. Name: David Lowell. Weight: 7 Ibs. 7 oz.

Born. To Phil (Sergeant Bilko) Silvers, 44, comedian of stage and TV, and Evelyn Patrick Silvers, 24, former TV model: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Tracey Edythe. Weight: 6 Ibs. n oz.

Married. Lee J. Cobb, 45, star of screen (On the Waterfront) and stage (Death of a Salesman) ; and Mary Hirsch, 27, brunette elementary schoolteacher; both for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. Barry Sullivan, 44, longtime actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Too Late the Phalarope), screen (The Bad and the Beautiful); by Marie Brown Sullivan, 45; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Kingoro Hashimoto, 67, onetime Japanese Imperial Army Colonel, who was implicated in the abortive 1936 "February Revolt," advocate of war against China and the West, imprisoned in 1948 as a "Class A" war criminal (released in 1955) of lung cancer; in Tokyo. Stocky, dynamic Hashimoto, whose narrow military training, ignorance of the outside world and hatred of foreigners led him to believe in an easy, speedy victory over Russia, Britain and the U.S., organized the superpatriotic Japan Youth Party in 1936, and with it as political leverage, instigated the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay (1937) with no effective discipline by higher army authority, went on to oust conservative rulers and join the clique that provoked war against the West. He once declared: "Britain, the United States and France are the setting sun. The universe will only come to life with the bright sun of great Japan flashing in the sky. Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit still and talk."

Died. Ernest Tener Weir, 81, retired (April, 1957) board chairman, chief executive officer and founder of the National Steel Corp.; of multiple cerebral hemorrhages; in Philadelphia (see BUSINESS).

Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson.

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