Born. To Vittorio Gassman, 42, Italian screen Romeo (The Easy Life), and Juliette Mayniel, 25, French starlet (The Cousins), who hopes to marry Gassman "soon": a son, his third child (he has two daughters born in wedlock to different mothers); in Rome.

Died. Peter Howard, 56, head of Moral Re-Armament, a onetime British rugby hero turned London Daily Express columnist, who in 1941 went to an M.R.A. meeting intending to ridicule the idea, was so taken with it that he ever after devoted his energies and the profits (some $1,120,000) from twelve moral-re-arming books and 16 plays to the movement, eventually becoming its leader after the death of Founder Frank Buchman in 1961; of pneumonia; in Lima, Peru.

Died. James Kem, 74, Republican Senator from Missouri from 1946 to '52, whose crusades against NATO, the Marshall Plan ("a sinkhole"), U.S. involvement in Korea ("unconstitutional war"), federal housing and aid to education ("an experiment in socialism") won him so many enemies that Democrat Stuart Symington unseated him by more than 150,000 votes in 1952, while Eisenhower was carrying the state by 30,000; in Charlottesville, Va.

Died. Stan Laurel, 74, slim, sad-eyed master mime who with the late Oliver Hardy made some 300 of Hollywood's slaphappiest movies in the 1920s, '30s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed the autos, all of which invariably earned him a klonk over the head and a snort from Ollie: "Another fine mess you got us into!"

Died. Felix Frankfurter, 82, pillar of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962; of a heart attack; in Washington (see THE LAW).

Died. Emmet McCormack, 84, co-founder and retired chairman of MooreMcCormack Lines, who at the age of 14 became what he liked to call "the world's first syndicated office boy" by working for four companies at $1 each per week, bashed about New York harbor as a tugboat captain before he joined the late Albert Moore in 1913 to form their own shipping company, which now ranks as the country's third biggest with 40 freighters, two passenger liners; of a series of strokes; in West Palm Beach, Fla.

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