Born. To Sir Georg Solti, 60, flamboyant Hungarian-born conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (TIME cover, May 7), and Lady (Valerie) Solti, 35: their second child, second daughter; in London. Name: Claudia Vanessa.

Engagement Revealed. Father Philip Berrigan, 50, antiwar activist; and Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 33, who was convicted with Berrigan last year of smuggling mail into and out of a federal prison (see RELIGION).

Died. William O. Mills, 48, first-term Republican Congressman from Maryland; apparently by self-inflicted gunshot wounds after the questionable financing of his 1971 campaign was revealed (see THE NATION).

Died. Vaughn Monroe, 61, singer-bandleader whose off-key, nasal baritone made million-selling recordings of Racing with the Moon, Ballerina and There! I've Said It Again; after stomach surgery; in Stuart, Fla. A onetime trumpeter in East Coast society bands, Monroe formed his own group in 1940 and during the next decade combined a regular radio show (Camel Caravan) with as many as 200 one-night stands a year. Though his voice was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Monotone" by critics, the debonair showman remained a starring attraction until the '50s when, with the advent of rock 'n' roll, he abandoned the big bands for smaller nightclub combos catering to quieter audiences.

Died. Colonel Alois Podhajsky, 75, director of Vienna's Spanish Riding School (1939-65); of a stroke; in Vienna. Podhajsky was a retired Austrian Army officer and the holder of an Olympic equestrian medal when he became chief of the academy of classical horsemanship in 1939. The star attractions of his performing troupe were 80 magnificent white stallions whose lineage traced back to Spain and Arabia and whose world-famous, high-stepping, dancelike routines dated back to the 16th century. Fearing their capture by the advancing Russians in 1945, Podhajsky asked for help from fellow Horseman George Patton, who dispatched a convoy of tanks into Czechoslovakia to escort 200 Lipizzan mares and foals to safety.

Died. General Graves B. ("Bobby") Erskine, U.S.M.C., 75, tough, battle-tested veteran of two world wars and commander of the 3rd Marine Division assault on Iwo Jima in 1945; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. Erskine was known as "the Big E" to his staff and "the Old Flamethrower" to his troops. During the bitter, 26-day battle for Iwo, his men suffered some 5,000 casualties, but launched the Pacific war's first major night attack against the Japanese, and were awarded the Presidential Citation for their heroism. In 1950 Erkskine was denied his request to take the 1st Division to Korea and was transferred to the Pentagon, where he served eight years as Assistant Secretary of Defense.

Death Revealed. Marshal Ivan S. Konev, 75, Russian World War II hero who led his troops to the historic linkup with U.S. soldiers on the Elbe River in 1945; after a long illness; in Moscow. A stern leader and wily strategist, Konev engineered Russia's first serious counterattack against the invading Nazis in 1941, three years later became the first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to death. Khrushchev appointed Konev commander of the Warsaw Pact armies, then, in 1961, shifted him to Berlin to take charge of Soviet forces during the building of the Berlin Wall.

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