Born. To Ricky Nelson, 23, TV singing star, and Kristin Harmon Nelson, 18, whom he met five years ago when she asked him for an autograph: a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Born. To Carlos Manuel de Ycaza, 25, terrible-tempered Panama-born jockey who, despite 458 days spent on the ground in rough-riding suspensions since 1957, has won more than $8,000,000 worth of purses, and Linda Bement Ycaza, 21, Miss Universe of 1960, a native of Salt Lake City: their first child, a son; in Manhattan.

Born. To Thomas Edmund Dewey Jr., 31, Manhattan investment banker, son of the Republican standard-bearer in 1944 and 1948, and Ann Lawler Dewey, 26, Columbia University doctoral candidate in classics: their first child, a son, first grandchild for Dewey Sr.; in Manhattan. Name: Thomas Edmund Lawler Dewey.

Married. Francis Gary Powers, 34, U-2 pilot downed over Russia in May 1960, now a test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft Corp.; and Claudia Edwards Downey, 28, CIA psychologist; both for the second time; in Catlett, Va.

Married. Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 35, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Judy Rawlins, 27, his secretary; both for the second time; in a Middle Eastern Bahai ceremony in Beverly Hills, followed a few hours later by a civil service in Las Vegas, because, said Damone, though the vows of the quasi-Islamic sect are binding in California, "We wanted to cover ourselves for the rest of the world."

Marriage Revealed. Jean Seberg, 24, Iowa-born gamine cinemactress (In the French Style); and Remain Gary, 49, bestselling French novelist (The Roots of Heaven) and longtime friend; both for the second time; on Oct. 16, in Sarrola-Carcopino, Corsica.

Marriage Revealed. Joan Irvine Swinden Penniman Burt, 30, leggy great-granddaughter of Real Estate Man James Irvine and principal (21%) heiress to the 88,000-acre $500 million Irvine Ranch south of Los Angeles, site of the world's largest private civic development project now under way, designed by Architect William Pereira; and Morton Wistar ("Cappy") Smith, 47, Virginia country squire and champion show-horse trainer; she for the fourth time, he for the second; on Sept. 9.

Died. Michael John Lithgow, 43, ace test pilot for British Aircraft Corp., onetime holder of the world speed record (737.3 m.p.h. in 1953); in a test-flight crash, with six other top British flyers and engineers, of the prototype BAG One-Eleven, the free world's first short-haul jetliner; near Chicklade, Wiltshire.

Died. Diana Churchill, 54, eldest daughter of Sir Winston, a quiet blonde who saw her first marriage, to a South African gold-mine heir, go on the rocks within months, her second, to Tory Politician Duncan Sandys (now Commonwealth Relations Secretary), end after 25 years in 1960, reverted to her maiden name and devoted her time to the Samaritans, an organization that tries to dissuade would-be suicides from taking the final step; by her own hand (barbiturates); in London.

Died. Rembert Rudolph Wurlitzer, 59, violin expert and a grandson of the founder of Chicago's Wurlitzer Co. (pianos, organs, jukeboxes), who bowed out of the family firm in 1949 to found Manhattan's Rembert Wurlitzer Co., which has bought, sold, authenticated or restored more than half the world's 600 known Stradivariuses, supplied instruments to Kreisler, Oistrakh and Stern; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. John Wellborn Root, 76, Chicago architect, senior partner of Holabird & Root, son and namesake of the co-designer of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, who himself changed the city's skyline in the '20s and '30s with the Palmer House, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings, pioneered in the use of glass-curtain walls with Milwaukee's A. O. Smith engineering building, which antedated Manhattan's celebrated Lever House by 25 years; of pneumonia; in North Falmouth, Mass.

Died. Samuel Sorenson Adams, 84, Danish-born founder (in 1909) and president of S. S. Adams Co. of Neptune, N.J., world's largest makers of sneezing powder, hidden buzzers, rubber lizards, squirting boutonnieres and other boffs, all of which he delighted in trying out on friends, relatives and casual acquaintances; of a heart attack; in, Asbury Park, N.J.

Died. Walter Francis Dillingham, 88, Hawaii's premier citizen, lord of a $150 million empire; of a heart attack; in Honolulu (see THE NATION).

Died. Admiral William Harrison Standley, 90, chief of U.S. naval operations from 1933 to 1937, wartime Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where he kept lend-lease flowing while pressing Stalin to tell the Russian people about U.S. efforts on their behalf, grew so disgusted that after the war he campaigned against the Communists with such fervor that in 1959 he bitterly protested when San Diego used a red Christmas star atop a civic center; of pneumonia; in San Diego.

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