EXPECTING. Mary Steenburgen, 29, Academy Award-winning actress (Melvin and Howard); and her husband, Malcolm McDowell, 39, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Cat People); their second child; in July.

MARRIED. David Stockman, 36, number-crunching Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Jennifer Blei, 28, IBM sales representative; both for the first time; in Washington, D.C. Stockman will not handle the family budget, he says, because "I tend to round off numbers to the nearest billion dollars, and Jennifer says I lack sufficient attention to detail."

RECOVERING. Gary Coleman, 15, cheeky child star of television's Different Strokes; from an abscess around the site of his 1973 kidney transplant; in Los Angeles. The problem was discovered while he awaited a second donated kidney; the first is failing. Coleman suffers from nephritis, a congenital kidney ailment, and until a year ago took drugs that inhibited the disease (and stunted his growth; he is now 4 ft. 2 in.). When he is well enough, he will try again for a new transplant.

DIED. William L. Cary, 72, principled, tough-minded chairman (1961-64) of the Securities and Exchange Commission and professor of corporate and tax law at Columbia University; of cancer; in New York City. Cary spurred the then sleepy SEC into increasing its enforcement powers and tightening insider trading rules. His 1963 study of securities markets led to sweeping changes, including the eventual demise of fixed commissions.

DIED. S. (for Selwyn) Kip Farrington, 78, gentleman sportsman who wrote about his hobbies of deep-sea fishing, amateur hockey and railroading in 24 books and as Field and Stream's salt-water-fishing editor for 35 years; in Southampton, N.Y.

DIED. Alfred Franz Wallenstein, 84, the first nationally renowned U.S.-born conductor, who raised the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the top ranks as its music director from 1943 to 1956; in New York City. A child prodigy who played cello on the vaudeville circuit to help pay for his music studies, he conducted his Sinfonietta on the Mutual Network from 1933 to 1945.

DIED. James Hubert ("Eubie") Blake, 100, durable ragtime composer and lyricist (Charleston Rag and I'm Just Wild About Harry); just five days after his centennial, following a bout of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. A onetime bordello pianist and a contemporary of Scott Joplin, Blake electrified Broadway in 1921 with his music for Shuffle Along. For the next 25 years the modest, unassuming composer enjoyed steady success before sliding into semiobscurity. His music was rediscovered in the '60s and eventually celebrated in such Broadway shows as 1979's Eubie! This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.