Born. To Sybil Burton Christopher, 38, silver-haired ex of Richard, and hostess of Manhattan's rockingly successful Arthur discotheque, and Jordan Christopher, 26, mop-pop guitarist who is Arthur "music director": their first child, a daughter (she has two other daughters by Richard, he has one by his former wife); in Manhattan.

Married. David Hamilton, 26, advertising copywriter and younger brother of Actor George Hamilton, Lynda Bird's favorite escort; and Helle Melchior, 20, comely Danish granddaughter of Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles.

Married. Barbara Jefford, 36, British actress who recently made her movie debut as Molly Bloom, the earthy heroine of James Joyce's Ulysses; and John Turner, 34, British TV actor; both for the second time; in London.

Divorced. Andrea Mead Lawrence, 35, once the world's fastest woman skier, who won for the U.S. two Olympic gold medals in 1952 (TIME cover, Jan. 21, 1952); and David Lawrence, 37, U.S. giant-slalom champion in 1949; on uncontested mutual charges of cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, five children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent for the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader.

Died. La Verne Andrews, 51, eldest of the singing Andrews Sisters, who quit school in 1932 at age 17 with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

Died. Dr. Hein von Diringshofen, 67, German pioneer in aviation and space medicine, who in the early 1930s was the first to study the effects of high gravity forces and weightlessness on the human body, frequently used himself as a guinea pig in hell-diving Stukas and free-fall parachute jumps, in 1934 constructed the first experimental human centrifuge, predecessor of the ones now used in training astronauts, later served as the Luftwaffe's chief medical officer in World War II; of cancer; in Frankfurt, Germany.

Died. Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), 74, U.S. dramatist and one of the firsi to see the American stage as a vehicle for social criticism; of pneumonia; in Southampton, England. Short, peppery and prolific, Rice despised the frothy shows so in vogue during his youth ("I'm interested in being realistic about life") and used the theater to get his strident views across. Over the years, he bitingly attacked everything from fascism to automation, theater critics, social smugness, TV blacklisting and militarism in more than 50 full-length plays. Only a few of them (1919's On Trial, 1923's The Adding Machine, 1929's Street Scene) won Broadway acclaim. Rice, true to form, remained a protester to the end, most recently criticizing U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam.

Died. The Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, 79, a dean of Washington's Catholic University of America from 1949 to 1957 and one of the nation's leading interpreters of moral theology, who never hesitated to articulate his often controversial views, be it on the World War II atomic bombing of Japan ("from an ethical standpoint--simply murder"), court-ordered sterilization ("totalitarian, unAmerican, and irreligious"), or smoking (one pack a day is all right, two packs is a sin); of heart disease; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Alfred E. Lyon, 81, longtime head of Philip Morris, Inc. as president (1945-49) and board chairman (1949-57); of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. An ebullient Britisher, Lyon arrived in the U.S. in 1912 and swiftly showed his Yank cousins what the word salesman meant, getting dealers to push Philip Morris by helping dust their shelves, paying college students to pass out free smokes to friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created one of the world's most famous living trademarks, hiring midget John Roventini to bawl "Call for Philip Maw-ress." His company never led the industry, but largely because of him it grew from $4,000,000 in 1933 to $400 million by the time he retired.

Died. John Masefield, 88, Britain's Poet Laureate since 1930; in Abingdon, England (see THE WORLD).

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