Born. To Romy Schneider, 28, Austria's slinky movie minx, and Harry Haubenstock, 45, German theater director she married last July: their first child, a son; in West Berlin.
Married. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 67, pioneering airman who flew Admiral Byrd on the 1928-30 Antarctica expedition, now a General Dynamics consultant; and Audrey Schipper, 44, market research director for Fairchild Publications; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan.
Died. Roni Sue Aranson, six days old, the strongest of quintuplets born Nov. 26 (2 1/2 months premature) to Kindergarten Teacher Patti Aranson, 22, and Duquesne University Law Student Michael Aranson, 22; of pulmonary immaturity (which earlier took the lives of her four sisters); in Pittsburgh.
Died. Frank E. ("Pappy") Noel, 61, Associated Press war photographer since 1937, who was torpedoed after escaping the fall of Singapore in 1942 (got a classic shot of a Lascar seaman in a lifeboat begging for water), covered Malaya, Burma, the Middle East, Europe and finally Korea, where he was captured, imprisoned for three years, somehow acquired a camera, and even conned his Chinese captors into letting him send pictures back to the U.S.; of a stroke; in Gainesville, Fla.
Died. General Pai Chung-hsi, 73, Chiang Kai-shek's ablest commander, who, along with General Li Tsung-jen (with whom he was so closely associated that they were usually referred to collectively as "Li-Pai"), provided the Kuomintang with its best troops, fought effectively against war lords (1926), Japanese invaders (1937-45) and Reds until the mainland fell, at which point Pai joined Chiang on Formosa, Li went to the U.S.;* of a stroke; in Taipei.
Died. Margaret Daly, 79, a Scotch-Irish lady who immigrated to the U.S. in 1922, raised four daughters, the celebrated Daly sisters--Columnist Maggie ("Daly Diary" in Chicago's American) and Sheila (a Chicago Tribune teen column), Novelist Maureen (Seventeenth Summer), and Revlon Vice President Kay; of a stroke; in Manhattan.
Died. Alice Masaryk, 87, daughter of the first President of Czechoslovakia, and sister of Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk (who mysteriously fell to his death from a window in Prague shortly after Communists seized power), herself a notable figure in her homeland as head of the Czech Red Cross before World War II when she fled to the U.S.; of a stroke; in Chicago.
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