Born. To Singer Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin Halliday: a 7-lb., 13-oz. daughter, her second child; in Hollywood. Name: Heller. Said scandalized Weatherford, Tex. townsfolk: "It's not a very nice name for a girl to have."

Died. Philip James Roosevelt, 49, banker (Roosevelt & Son), yachtsman, second and fifth cousin respectively of Theodore Sr. and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; of drowning (presumably after a heart attack) while sailing a dinghy on Oyster Bay, N.Y.

Died. Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots.

Died. William ("Sourdough Bill") Sulzer, 78, only New York Governor ever to be impeached and removed from office; in Manhattan. Son of an 1848 revolutionary who fled from Germany, he was a grocer boy on Manhattan's East Side, studied law, entered politics before he was of voting age. With Tammany support, he served 23 years in the State Legislature and in Congress, was elected Governor in 1912. Once in office, he started bucking Tammany, and before a year was out Tammany got him impeached. He was removed from office on charges of perjury and falsifying his campaign expenses. Among campaign contributions which he was charged with having failed to report were $1,000 from Henry Morgenthau (father of the Secretary of the Treasury) and $5,000 from Herbert H. Lehman, now Governor of New York.

Died. Henry Woodd Nevinson, 85, famed British war correspondent; in London. Reporter of five wars (starting with the Greek-Turk war of 1897), legend reported of him that if a war ended before he arrived, it had to be run over again.

Died. The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, 91, Episcopal Bishop Emeritus of Massachusetts; in Milton, Mass. Member of a famed, textile-wealthy New England family, he attracted attention outside the church as a phenomenal fund raiser. He got $5,000,000 for Harvard from George F. Baker, raised $1,000,000 for Wellesley, $1,000,000 for increased Harvard teaching salaries, raised $8,500,000 to start the Church Pension Fund for retired Episcopal clergymen. He became Bishop at 42, served actively for 33 years. His son, the Rt. Rev. William Appleton Lawrence, is Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts.

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