Born. To Mel Torme, 33, cream-voiced crooner, once known as "The Velvet Fog," and Arlene Torme, 28: their first child, a son (Torme has two sons by an earlier marriage); in Hollywood. Name: Tracy. Weight: 9 Ibs. 11 oz.

Married. Walashan Prince Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London.

Divorced. Hugh Marston Hefner, 33, publisher of Playboy magazine; by Mildred Hefner, 33, who charged desertion; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Chicago.

Died. Alfred Nu* Steele, 57, board chairman and chief executive officer of the Pepsi-Cola Co., onetime vice president of the Coca-Cola Co., who in 1955 became the fourth husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Eduard Alexander van Beinum, 58, one of the world's outstanding orchestra conductors, who shaped the post-World War II reconstruction of Amsterdam's famed 71-year-old Concertgebouw, transpolar commuter who since 1957 had directed both the Concertgebouw and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of a heart attack; while rehearsing on the podium in Amsterdam.

Died. Eric Blom, 70, scholarly, Swiss-born music critic for the London Observer, who spent eight years (1946-54) editing the 8,350,000-word, nine-volume fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians; in London.

Died. James Gleason, 72, wispy, slang-spouting cinemactor who inevitably turned up as the prizefight manager, the private eye, the top sergeant or the political crony in scores of films, from Here Comes Mr. Jordan to The Last Hurrah, onetime Broadway playwright who hit the big time in 1925 with Is Zat So? (618 performances), later wrote plays with fat cast lists in order to provide work for actors; of chronic asthma; in Hollywood.

Died. Julius Howland Barnes, 86, Duluth industrialist, onetime president (1921-24) and chairman (1929-31) of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sometime trouble-shooter for his friend Herbert Hoover; of a heart attack; in Duluth.

* For Sigma Nu, college fraternity of both Steele (Northwestern, '23) and his father (also Northwestern).

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