Born. To James Taylor, 25 (TIME cover, March 1,1971), melancholic folk-blues singer (Fire and Rain, Knocking 'Round the Zoo), and Carly Simon, 29, gutsy singer-composer (Anticipation, You're So Vain) and daughter of the publishing Simon (& Schuster): a daughter, Sarah Maria; in New York City.

Engaged. Richard Harris, 43, lusty Irish actor (This Sporting Life, Camelot) and occasional singer (MacArthur Park); and Anne Turkel, twentyish, former fashion model from Scarsdale, N.Y., who met and played opposite Harris last fall in her first film, 99 and 44/100 Percent Dead. This will be his second, her first marriage.

Died. Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Major Poston, 67, reporter for more than 40 years and one of the first black newsmen to cover general stories for a major New York daily; after a long illness; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ted Poston worked as a dining-car waiter and freelance writer in Europe before joining the staff of the New York Amsterdam News and then the New York Post, where his byline appeared for 33 years. His first big stories were exclusive interviews with Governor Huey Long of Louisiana and Wendell Willkie; other assignments included Thomas E. Dewey's raids on the Harlem numbers rackets and numerous reports on civil rights confrontations in the Deep South.

Died. Richard F. Cleveland, 76, eldest son of Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a prominent Maryland attorney; in Baltimore. Cleveland, who represented Whittaker Chambers in the libel suit brought by Alger Hiss, was active in the presidential campaigns of one Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and three Republicans, Alfred Landon, Wendell Willkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Died. David Alfaro Siqueiros, 77, flamboyant Mexican muralist and onetime Communist leader; of cancer; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The last survivor of the famed triumvirate of painters who celebrated Mexico's peasant revolution (Jose Clemente Orozco died in 1949, Diego Rivera in 1957), Siqueiros was as noted for his political acts as for his artistic achievements. In the '60s he spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes fantasy, but they were always intended to instruct. His last major work (1971), in the garden of Mexico City's Hotel de Mexico, is a 48,000-sq.-ft. mural called March of Humanity and the Earth Toward Infinite Space.

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