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Born. To Maria Pia, 23, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy, daughter of ex-King Umberto of Italy, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 33: twin sons, their first children; in Paris. Names: Dimitri Nicola Paulo Girogio Maria and Michel Umberto Antonio Pietro Maria. Weights: 7 lbs. 1 oz. and 5 lbs. 13 oz. respectively.

Born. To William Zeckendorf Jr., 28, son and vice president to the thegn of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp real estate firm, and Gurie Lie Zeckendorf, 28, daughter of former U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Lie. Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz.

Born. To Marguerite Higgins, 37, Pulitzer prizewinning correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, and Lieut. General William E. Hall, U.S.A.F., 50, commander of the Continental Air Command: their first son, second child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Lawrence Shawn. Weight: 8 lbs. 3 oz.

Born. To Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 41, cinemactor (The Vikings, Paths of Glory, Lust for Life), and Anne Buydens Douglas, 35, onetime pressagent: their second son, second child (he has two more sons by a previous marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Eric Anthony. Weight: 7 lbs.

Married. Princess Sandra Vittoria Torlonia, 22, granddaughter of the late King Alfonso XIII of Spain (and, on her father's side, of the late Brooklyn-born hardware heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia), daughter of Don Alessandro Torlonia, Prince of Civitella-Cesi, one of Italy's wealthiest men; and Clemente Lequio, 33, widower, father of an eight-year-old child, son of a onetime Fascist Italian ambassador to Spain; in secret, in Rome. Often mentioned as a possible mate for Belgium's bachelor King Baudoin, Princess Sandra met Insurance Man Clemente five weeks ago, married him in defiance of her family, which had called rumors of the match "grotesque."

Married. Timothy Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 40, cousin (on the distaff side) of England's Queen Elizabeth II; and Mary Bridget Brennan, 29, Irish-born nurse who met the earl in a London nursing home three years ago, renounced the Roman Catholic faith to become his wife; in Glamis, Scotland.

Married. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies, 71, Washington hostess, Post Toasties heiress worth nearly $100 million, who in 1937 went to Moscow as the wife of the late (TIME, May 19) Joseph E. Davies, then U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where she lavishly displayed the graces of capitalism to admiring comrades; and suave, silver-haired Herbert A. May, 66, senior vice president of Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Air Brake Co., a lustrous host and lover of good clubs, who, according to friends, "spends money beautifully" and carries himself "as if he were posing for his own statue"; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Woodbine, Md.

Divorced. By Rhonda Fleming (real name: Marilyn Louis), 34, titian-haired cinemelon (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral): Dr. Lewis V. Morrill Jr., 41, Beverly Hills surgeon; after six years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Rhonda's novel reason why their union hit the rocks: "He said he was sacrificing his career."

Died. Kurt Alder, 55, German co-winner (with the late University of Kiel Professor Otto Diels) of the 1950 Nobel Prize in chemistry; of a liver ailment; in Cologne, West Germany. The two scientists were honored for discovering in the '20s the diene synthesis of organic compounds, an advance that helped accelerate the development of synthetic dyes, textiles, plastics and rubber.

Died. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., 66, professional-aviator, prophet and pioneer of U.S. military aviation, first man to fly over 300 m.p.h. (1925, unofficial record); of cancer; in Elizabeth City, N.C. A onetime baseball pitcher (Fordham and New York Giants), Al Williams joined the Navy in World War I, started a 13-year flying hitch that produced such acrobatic innovations as the inverted falling leaf, made him one of the many fathers of dive-bombing, ended when he resigned from the regular Navy in 1930 in protest against sea duty. A Georgetown-trained lawyer, he was no less articulate than air-minded, wrote a syndicated Scripps-Howard newspaper column while he worked as flying salesman and good-will man for Gulf Oil Co., meanwhile kept a part-time military franchise with a Marine Corps Reserve commission. For advocating a separate U.S. air force, Al Williams was forced to resign from the Marine Corps in 1940. He countered by offering himself and his personal fighter planes--one of which is now in the Smithsonian Institution--should the Navy or its Marine Corps ever need them. The Navy never took him up on it. The Army did.

Died. Herbert Bayard Swope, 76, onetime (1920-29) top editor of the old New York World; of pneumonia following surgery; in Manhattan (see PRESS).

Died. Alexander III, 89, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, longtime (since 1931) head of the Greek Orthodox community in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and part of Turkey, spiritual leader of thousands who have migrated from the Middle East to the U.S. and Latin America; in Damascus.

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