Born. To Suzy Parker, 32, onetime model, sometime actress (Circle of Deception), and Bradford Dillman, 34, brooding cinemactor (A Rage to Live): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.

Born. To John Daly, 51, imperturbable moderator of CBS's What's My Line?, and Virginia Warren Daly, 37, eldest daughter of Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren: their third child, first daughter; in Manhattan.

Died. Lansdell K. Christie, 61, founder and president of Liberia Mining Co., the West African country's first modern iron-ore mine (3,000,000 tons in 1964), who discovered Liberia's mineral potential during World War II while serving as an officer in the U.S. Army Engineers, in 1946 began developing the deposits with early financing from Republic Steel, making himself such a fortune that in 1960 he was able to help bankroll Liberia's big Mano River iron-ore project with an interest-free loan of $1,700,000; after a short illness; in Syosset, L.I.

Died. Rear Admiral Allen Phillip Calvert, 64, World War II commander of the PT-boat flotilla in which President Kennedy skippered the PT 109, for which he got the Distinguished Service Medal, later Deputy Chief of General MacArthur's planning staff; of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif.

Died. Allen Balcom Du Mont. 64, "father of television," an inventor and broadcasting pioneer who perfected the first commercially practical cathode-ray tube in 1931, thereupon attemoted to corner the new market with the first home TV sets (1938) and a network of three stations (in 1941), but was left far behind by better-financed RCA and CBS, eventually sold out and became a consultant to Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., often observing that he felt like Frankenstein beholding his monster; of complications from diabetes; in Manhattan.

Died. Alexander King, 66, pungent author and TV wit, an editorial associate of LIFE whose career collapsed in 1945 when he sank into done addiction, but rebounded to new heights in 1959 with explosive appearances on the Tonight show to plug his bestselling memoirs (Mine Enemy Grows Older), giving voice to his acid appraisals of modern art ("a putrescent coma"), advertising ("an overripe fungus") and people in general ("adenoidal baboons"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Tony De Marco, 67, U.S. ballroom dancer in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, leader of the "Dancing De Marcos," who whirled his magnificently gowned partners around vaudeville and supper-club stages of the U.S. and Europe, thrilling audiences with his gliding grace and superbly timed leaps, in 1957 retired to Florida with Sally De Marco, his third wife and tenth partner; following a stroke; in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Dawn Powell, 67, Ohio-born author of 13 wittily satiric novels (The Golden Spur), mostly depicting the plight of the innocent provincial caught in Greenwich Village among unscrupulous publishers and predatory women; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Harold M. Bixby, 75, aviation pioneer and vice president of Pan American World Airways from 1938 to 1949, who as president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce in 1927 was a key backer of Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight and named Lindy's single-engined monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Captiva Island, Fla.

Died. Harry Blackstone, 80, U.S. magician, a master illusionist who described magic as "nothing but psychology," brought new excitement to the old now-you-see-it-now-you-don't school when, performing at the White House in 1926, he pickpocketed a revolver from Calvin Coolidge's bodyguard, and became one of the giants in the field with his own line of spectacular tricks, featuring a donkey vanishing onstage and a rope climber disappearing in a cloud of smoke; of uremia; in Hollywood.

Died. William Thomas Cosgrave, 85, Ireland's President from 1922 to 1932, an early member of the revolutionary Sinn Fein and active participant in the bloody 1916 uprising, who then sided with the moderates accepting Britain's offer of self-rule, in 1922 became President of the Irish Free State, working ably to put the exhausted country on its feet, establish an efficient legislature, stabilize finances and improve agriculture, but still lost to Eamon de Valera in 1932, thereafter leading the opposition until retirement in 1944; of a heart attack; in County Dublin; Ireland.

Died. Natalie Dunfee Kalmus, 87, co-developer in 1914, with her late Chemist-Husband Herbert Kalmus, of Technicolor, first and still most widely used color film process, who served as color director (1915-49) when Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of the field, turning out such early successes as Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Becky Sharp (1935), but quit after losing a bitter California divorce suit against her husband when it came out that they had been secretly divorced since 1921, thus invalidating her claim to half his property, estimated at $3,000,000; of an intestinal obstruction; in Boston.

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