Born. To Pianist Josef Hofmann, 61; and Mrs. Betty Short Hofmann, 30, one-time concert pianist and Hofmann pupil: a son, their third child; in Philadelphia.

Elopement Revealed. Cranston ("Boo") Paschall, 24, student aviator, stepson of Seattle's Airplane-Maker William Edward Boeing; and Marguerite Simanek. 26, red-haired United Air Lines stewardess; to Carson City, Nev., Jan. 4.

Married. Margaret Gwendolen Mary Drummond, 31. daughter of British Ambassador to Italy Sir Eric Drummond, onetime (1919-33) Secretary of the League of Nations; and John Walker III, 29, of Pittsburgh, assistant director of the American Academy of Rome; in Rome.

Married. Vittorio Mussolini, 23, eldest son of Benito Mussolini; and Orsola Buvoli, 21, of Milan; in Rome.

Died. Lionel Charles ("Dick") Probert, 53, vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, whose "Chessie" cat advertising campaign he fostered; of pneumonia ; in Los Angeles. Once a locomotive fireman, he turned newspaperman, became Associated Press Bureau chief in Mexico (1913) and Washington (1918-27). He saw President McKinley assassinated, went to France with President Wilson. The late Brothers Van Sweringen got him back in the railroad business as vice president of the Erie in 1927.

Died. Frederick William Rueckheim Jr., 63, president of Crackerjack Co. of Chicago; in Tucson, Ariz.

Died. Charles Robert Crisp, 66, long-time (1896, 1913-32) Democratic Representative from Georgia; of complications following a paralytic stroke; at Americus, Ga.

Appointed House Parliamentarian by his father, the late Speaker Charles Frederick Crisp, and by the late Speaker Champ Clark, he wrote the standard Manual & Digest of the Rules of the House of Representatives.

Died. William W. ("Wild Bill") Durbin, 71, prestidigitating Register of the U. S. Treasury, first chairman of William Jennings Bryan's campaign for the Presidency in 1896; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Kenton, Ohio. He founded the International Brotherhood of Magicians, built an elaborate "Egyptian theatre" at Kenton in which to entertain his friends.

Died. William Maxse Meredith, 71, son of the late British Novelist George Meredith; at Chudleigh, England.

Died. Lawyer Elihu Root, 91, Republican Elder Statesman; in Manhattan (see p. 21).

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