Born. To Mickey Mantle, 28, New York Yankees sometime slugger, twice (1956 and 1957) the "Most Valuable Player" in the American League, and Merlyn Mantle, 27: their fourth child, fourth son; in Dallas. Name: Danny Merle. Weight: 7 Ibs. 4 oz.

Born. To Jose Ferrer, 48, Hollywood and Broadway actor and director, and Rosemary Clooney, 31, jukebox and screen songstress: their fifth child, third son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Raphael Francisco. Weight: 5 Ibs. 6 oz.

Married. Lance Reventlow, 24, only son of Barbara Hutton and her second husband, Denmark's Count Court von Haugwitz -Reventlow; and Hollywood Starlet Jill St. John, 19: he for the first time, she for the second; in San Francisco (see PEOPLE).

Married. Otto Preminger, 53, bagel-bald Hollywood producerdirector; and Brunette Patricia Hope Bryce, 29, one of the highest-paid U.S. fashion models; he for the third time, she for the second; in Haifa, Israel, where he is filming Leon Uris' Exodus.

Died. Thomas Chamales, 35, boisterous bestselling novelist (Never So Few, Go Naked in the World) who spent last Thanksgiving in jail for beating his wife, Songstress Helen O'Connell, and threatening to kill their two-year-old daughter; of asphyxiation when his cigarette set his apartment on fire; one day before his trial for assault, and two weeks before the publication of his new book. Forget That I Ever Lived; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. John Lardner, 47, eldest of Humorist Ring Lardner's four sons, war correspondent, sports columnist for Newsweek, television and occasional drama critic for The New Yorker, essayist and satirist (It Beats Working, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women), who published his first work--a poem on Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth (" . . . both sultans of swat; one hits where other people are, the other where they're not")--when he was eleven, in Columnist Franklin P. Adams' "Conning Tower"; of a heart attack, while writing about F.P.A.'s death (see PRESS) ; in Manhattan.

Died. James J. Metcalfe, 53, German-born ex-FBI agent (1931-35) who helped gun down John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater in 1934, later joined the Chicago Times as a reporter, made a splash with his 1937 series exposing the German-American Bund; of an abdominal hemorrhage; in Dallas.

Died. Mary Agnes ("Polly") Thomson, 75, longtime word-of-finger translator and "sister" to blind, deaf Author-Educator Helen Keller; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. Glasgow-born Polly Thomson, who never lost her Scottish burr, came to the U.S. in 1913, was hired by Helen Keller's formidable teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, as secretary, stayed on after "Teacher" died in 1936 asking that Helen and Polly--"my two children"--remain together. Polly's "talking" fingers, working at a rate of 85 words a minute tapping out letters in Helen Keller's palm, became Helen's eyes and ears as the two traveled the world to encourage 'and teach the blind and handicapped. Polly helped Helen write My Religion, Midstream--My Later Life, and many articles and poems, served as finger translator when Helen interviewed India's Prime Minister Nehru and President Eisenhower, even went with Helen and described to her movies, plays and football games. Said Helen, 79, when Polly died: "I can only pray that she may soon be among the friends awaiting me in heaven, strong and full of joy in the beautiful work she has done on earth."

Died. Dr. Emil Herman Grubbe, 85, Chicago-born physician and radiation expert who generated X rays soon after Roentgen did in 1895, became the world's first known victim of radiation as it progressively caused cancer in his hands and left forearm, most of his nose, upper lip and jaw; of pneumonia (an indirect result of his cancer); in Chicago, after a lifetime of 93 operations.

Died. Martin Dalton, 91, convicted of robbery and murder in 1897, who, when offered parole in 1930, toured the outside for a day, wept at the sight of cars instead of buggies, short skirts instead of bustles, and refused to leave the penitentiary; in Rhode Island State Prison, where he saw his last visitor in 1898, received his last letter in 1939.

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