Born. To King Simeon II, 25, King of Bulgaria, who was deposed from his throne at the age of nine by the Communists after World War II, and Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, 26, jet-haired light of Madrid's aristocratic high life: their first child, a boy; in Madrid.

Divorced. By the Countess of Coventry, 28, the former "Mimi" Medart, a St. Louis restaurateur's playgirl daughter: the eleventh Earl of Coventry, 28, an ex-Grenadier Guards lieutenant whose family motto is "Candidly and Constantly"; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after seven years of marriage, one son; in London.

Died. Bobo Newsom, 55, showboating South Carolina-born major-league pitcher for 24 years, whose roundhouse skill on the mound (211 victories for nine different clubs) was matched only by his foghorn braggadocio; of intestinal hemorrhage; in Orlando, Fla. Born Louis Norman Newsom, he always referred to himself and everyone else as "Bobo,'' drove around in a custom-built car with a two-tone bobo horn and his name in gold leaf a foot high on the dashboard. He was magnetic to baseballs, at various times broke his thumb, his kneecap, his leg. Pitching against the Yankees in the 1936 opener in Washington, a third-inning wild throw from third base to first fractured his jaw. Bobo picked himself up and went on with the game. "When President Roosevelt comes to see Bobo pitch. Bobo ain't gonna disappoint him." he declaimed --and shut out the Bombers, 1-0.

Died. Irene Pearl Smith Cliett, 63, shotgun-brandishing Texas farmer who, when federal courts ruled against her in a 1958 title fight for ownership of the farm, seceded her 705-acre spread from the Union and applied to the United Nations for membership; of cancer; in Glendale, Calif. Though all her efforts came to nought, Irene's finest hour was sending her nubile, 19-year-old daughter Angeline to the White House in 1958 to seek justice, with a rusty, 9-ft. chain padlocked around her neck. The key was mailed to President Eisenhower, who ordered secret servicemen to return it to Angeline. Angeline unlocked her chain necklace, padlocked it securely on the main gate of the Executive Mansion, and strolled off, leaving the U.S. in something of a bind.

Died. Kirsten Flagstad, 67, Norway's renowned Wagnerian opera soprano; after a long illness; in Oslo (see Music).

Died. Robert Joseph Casey, 72, star reporter at home and overseas for the Chicago Daily News from 1920 to 1947, a blithe spirit who taunted his publishers with such expense-account items as 10-c- for wolfbane after covering a wolf hunt, and tickled his readers with such feats as hiring a taxicab during the "phony" war of 1939 to tootle past France's Maginot Line and inspect the Nazis' Siegfried Line; of pneumonia; in Chicago.

Died. Rear Admiral Luis deFlorez, 73, stocky descendant of Spanish grandees who, after making a fortune as a $100,000-a-year consulting engineer to oil companies, put his inventive talents at the service of U.S. aviation, won flying's coveted Collier Trophy in 1943 for combat simulation devices during World War II; of a stroke, which occurred while he was readying up his twin-engined amphibian for takeoff; in New London, Conn. Winning his wings at 50, deFlorez was once asked if his safety inventions could ever foolproof a plane, coolly replied that the only such aircraft was one that "couldn't be flown by a fool."

Died. John George Taylor Spink, 74, publisher since 1914 of the Sporting News, the nation's oldest sports weekly, a gruff St. Louisan with a blankety-blank tongue, who inherited the newspaper at the age of 26 and built it into baseball's bible with a 178,144 circulation; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. The only sportswriter accorded a special niche in the Hall of Fame, Spink was called "baseball's bellowing Boswell" for attacking such blots on the sport as the Black Sox scandal and recording its heroes with such delight that he even found a spot for himself: "Most times official scorer, World Series. J. G. Taylor Spink, 12."

Died. Merwin Kimball Hart, 81, crotchety right-wing dragon of the 1930s and latter-day John Bircher, who put aside a law-and-insurance career in the early 1930s to found the present National Economic Council. Inc., a tom-tom for his reactionary views; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Through his fortnightly Economic Council Letter. Hart fought the income tax. the 40-hour week, the United Nations, antidiscrimination bills, child labor laws, state aid to education, and all the works and ideas of his 1904 Harvard classmate, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Died. William Seaver Woods, 90, longtime editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Literary Digest and pioneer in the fine art of political poll-taking, a device that he used to swell the magazine's circulation from 45,000 when he took over in 1905 to 2,225,000 by the time he quit in 1933; of a stroke; in Old Lyme, Conn. Basing his forecasts on straw ballots mailed out across the U.S., Woods predicted F.D.R.'s 1932 presidential victory with 98.85% accuracy, then angrily resigned when his cost-conscious publishers insisted that the next poll include only names listed in telephone directories and automobile registration lists. That was a mistake in those Depression days, leading the Literary Digest to predict victory for Alf Landon in 1936, after which the periodical declined, was absorbed by TIME in 1938.

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