Born. To Rosemary Clooney, 29, singing star of jukebox, TV and screen (Red Garters), and Jose Ferrer, 45, Puerto Rican-born stage actor-director (The Shrike) and film star (The Great Man): their third child, second son, prematurely (6 1/2 months); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gabriel Vincente. Weight: 4 lbs.

Died. Roger Williams Straus, 65, retired (April 1957) board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co., a founder (1928) of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents; of a heart attack; in Liberty, N.Y.

Died. Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, 66, Broadway and Hollywood playboy, onetime millionaire real estate speculator in cinema chains; of a cerebral blood clot; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A restless, imaginative developer of entertainment properties, Blumenthal made a fistful of millions by selling Cinemagnate William Fox the idea of a theater chain.

Died. Ward Vinton Evans, 74, chemistry professor emeritus at Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University, and dissenting member of the three-man board that declared Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer a security risk in 1954; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lancaster, Pa. The majority felt that Oppenheimer showed a "susceptibility to influence" and a "serious disregard" of U.S. security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board cleared him, and "to damn him now and ruin his career and his service, I cannot do it."

Died. Walter Franklin George, 79, patriarchal "Senator's Senator," recent compelling voice for American bipartisan foreign policy. Democratic Senator from Georgia from 1922 to 1956, when President Eisenhower made him U.S. Ambassador to NATO; of a heart ailment; in home-town Vienna, Ga. Born on a poor Georgia farm, George rose from a Georgia lawyer to associate justice on the State Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate, George began serving (1926) on the tax-writing Finance Committee, soon was recognized as the Chamber's tax expert. He fought off Franklin Roosevelt's 1938 attempt to dump him as no "liberal," countered: "I'm a liberal within limitations of the Constitution. I'm sure the people of Georgia want a voice in the Senate, not an echo." But over the desegregation issue his voice was too moderate, and Georgian shifted support to former Governor Herman Talmadge, forcing George to bow out. Walter George said: "I think I'm capable of some good work yet; I would like to be useful up to the end," and went off to service as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador.

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