Monday, Mar. 10, 1958

Born. To Debbie Reynolds, 25, cinemactress (Tammy and the Bachelor), and Eddie Fisher, 29, wavy-haired jukebox champion (7 Believe): their second child, first son; in Burbank, Calif. Weight: 8 lbs. 7 1/2 oz.

Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 32, tenacious, windy-haired chief counsel for the McClellan committee, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 28: their sixth child, fourth son; in Washington. Name: Michael. Weight: 8 lbs. 5 oz.

Married. Gisele MacKenzie (real name: Marie Louise Marguerite Gisele La Fleche), 31, pert TV songstress (the "voice of Canada"); and Robert Shuttleworth, 44, onetime Canadian bandleader who gave Gisele her first singing job, has managed her career ever since; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas.

Married. Yigal Mossensohn, 41, Israeli novelist, short-story writer, playwright; and Doris Soroko, 23, of Manhattan, a Revlon vice president's daughter, who went to Israel to improve her Hebrew; in Maayan Tsvi, Israel.

Married. General Earle Everard Partridge, U.S.A.F., 57, commander of the North American Air Defense Command; and Elizabeth Strong Cowles, 41, alpinist, member of the 1950 American expedition to Mt. Everest; both for the second time; in Colorado Springs.

Married. Usher L. Burdick, 79, Republican Congressman from North Dakota for 17 years, lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books; and Jean Rodgers, thirtyish, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the second; in Washington.

Died. Frederick M. Dearborn Jr., 46, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Security Operations Coordination, watchdog over the implementation of National Security Council decisions; of shock and acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Washington. Educated at Harvard and a lieutenant colonel in World War II, Boston Lawyer Dearborn joined the White House Staff last May.

Died. Matthew Smith, 64, secretary of the Mechanics Educational Society of America, and sometime maverick of U.S. labor, who in 1942 created the Confederated Unions of America to buck the hegemony of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Articulate, Lancashire-born Matthew Smith--who stirred up the nation when he called strikes in wartime--thought that the closed shop, dues checkoffs, rigid seniority systems and party politics should be shunned by a healthy union.

Died. Tertius van Dyke, 72, dean emeritus of Connecticut's Hartford Theological Seminary, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Presbyterian Church ("Religion makes a very small dent upon New York"), son and biographer of clergyman-educator Henry van Dyke; of" pneumonia; in New Milford, Conn.

Died. Edward Asbury O'Neal, 82, onetime (1931-47) president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, influential voice in the shaping of New Deal farm policies, key figure (with Henry A. Wallace) in the passage of the first Agriculture Adjustment Act and the subsequent Soil Conservation Act; in Florence, Ala. O'Neal watched with satisfaction his federation's membership grow from 276,000 to 1,275,000 during his tenure as president, once said of farm production: "We should figure out our future on the basis of human needs--of goods and service--and not on the basis of money."

Died. Taikwan Yokoyama, 89, Japan's grand old man of painting, who turned out more than 10,000 traditional works on silk (best known: The Wheel of Life, a 140-ft.-long scroll done in black ink), was almost equally famous for his intake of sake (two quarts a day); of bronchial pneumonia; in Tokyo.

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