Born. To Frederick Bernard Snite Jr., 33, wealthy, handsome "Man in the Iron Lung," and Teresa Larkin Snite, 29: their second child, second daughter; in Chicago. Weight: 8 lb. 1 oz.

Born. To Prince Gustaf Adolph, 37, grandson of Sweden's King, and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 35: their fourth daughter, fourth disappointment to a prince-desiring nation; in Stockholm. Only males succeed to the Swedish crown.

Born. To Ben Hecht, 49, ace movie scribe, playwright (The Front Page), and Rose Cay lor Hecht, 45, onetime dramatist, his second wife: their first child, his second daughter, Jenny; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 lb. 8 oz.

Married. Captain Henri Giraud, son of General Henri Honore Giraud, officer in the Ninth Chasseurs d'Afrique; and Jacqueline Manuel, daughter of French North African colonials; in Algiers.

Married. Anna Neagle, 34, fair-haired, cinemadaptable dancer-actress (Irene, Nurse Edith Cavell); and Herbert Wilcox, 49, British producerdirector, her longtime movie mentor; each for the first time; in London.

Married. Brigadier General Robert Wood Johnson, 50, president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), head of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp.; and Evelyn Vernon Bruff, brunette nightclub dancer; two weeks after his second divorce, day after her first; in Salt Lake City.

Died. Air Commodore Augustus H. Orlebar, 46, Deputy Chief of Britain's Combined Operations (Commandos), onetime world's fastest flyer (357.7 m.p.h., in 1929); after several weeks' illness; in London.

Died. Campbell Bascom Slemp, 72, one-time White House secretary to Calvin Coolidge, longtime GOPolitico; of heart disease; in Knoxville, Tenn. Straight-faced, high-collared Bascom Slemp promised Coolidge he would write no intimate memoirs.

Died. John Richard Brinsley Norton, 87, fifth Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords; five weeks after he was named co-respondent in a successful divorce action (TIME, July 12); in London. His hobby: collecting dolls, from Restoration to Victorian.

Died. Bob, black cat, No. 10 Downing Street's much-photographed "lucky" mascot; in London. He crossed the path of the late Neville Chamberlain during the Munich crisis, later made friends with Winston Churchill.

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