Born. To Harry (Harold George) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso crooner, and his second wife, Julie Robinson Belafonte, 29, pigtailed, Russian-Jewish dancer (Katherine Dunham troupe): a son, their first child (his third); in Manhattan. Name: David Michael.

Proxy Marriage Revealed. Sophia Loren (under her real name, Sofia Scicolone), 23, sultry Italian cinemactress; and her discoverer, Italian Producer Carlo Ponti, 44; she for the first time, he for the second; through their attorneys (she was in Hollywood, he in Rome) two weeks ago; in Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Dr. Eugene Beverly Ferris Jr., 52, medical director of the American Heart Association, profuse, scholarly writer of some 150 technical papers on the heart and related fields; of a heart attack, at his desk in the AHA's office; in Manhattan.

Died. (Albert) Wayne Coy, 53, sharp-nosed, sharp-witted onetime (1947-52) chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; of a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Radio-television consultant to TIME Inc. since 1952, Coy was president of the Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. (KOB-TV) until its sale last January, president of Twin-States Broadcasting, Inc. (WFBM-TV, Indianapolis, and WTCN-TV, Minneapolis) since then.

Died. The Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 55, eloquent pastor of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church (since 1944), author of liberalized gospel (The Urge to Persecute); of a heart attack; in Washington. Davies often used his well-attended sermons to dissect current events: when fellow traveling was still in vogue, he prodded U.S. liberals; when Congressional Investigators McCarthy, Velde and Jenner were glorified, he blasted them as "men of tyranny." Two days before his death, Davies appeared on WABD's Nightbeat, was asked by Newsgriller John Wingate what would be the theme of his last sermon. Said Davies: "The true meaning of love in human life."

Died. Leo ("Lindy") Lindemann, 69, short, hustling founder of Broadway's fabled Lindy's restaurant; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefuellte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy's."

Died. George Ludlum Hartford, 92, chairman and financial wizard behind the growth of the A. & P. stores (for their future, see BUSINESS); of uremia; in Montclair, NJ. Inheriting the company in 1915 from their father, George Huntington Hartford, who had launched it with a small tea store on Manhattan's Vesey Street in 1859, George L. and brother John spread its power across the country, slashed prices by mass buying, produced their own products. "Mr. George," as he was known to company employees, anticipated the 1929 crash, signed store leases on a yearly basis only, and saw A. & P. prosper throughout the Depression, survive antimonopoly attacks, wind up with some 4,100 outlets and reap, in 1956, nearly $4,500,000 in net sales.

Died. Dr. Rudolph Matas, 97, goateed, world-famed pioneer surgeon, longtime (1895-1927) Tulane University professor of surgery; after long illness; in New Orleans. Described by Dr. William Mayo as "the most learned surgeon I have ever known," Dr. Matas invented a splint for broken jaws, aluminum binders for bulging arteries, discovered safe ways of operating in the chest cavity, sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes.

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