Born. To Henry Browne Wallace, 28, elder son of Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, and Florence Kling Wallace, 25: their first child, the Vice President's first grandchild, a daughter, Joan Brooks; in Des Moines. Weight: 7 lbs. 10 1/2 oz. Engaged. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime (1937-'40) British War Secretary, since then an outspoken House of Commons critic of Winston Churchill; and Cynthia Elliott, British war nurse captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, repatriated last year from a prison camp. Married. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 20, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander of U.S. ground forces in France; and 2nd Lieut. Henry Shaw Beukema, 20, son of Colonel Herman Beukema, West Point's geopolitics expert ; after his graduation at West Point. Married. Barbara Jean Douglas, 21, only daughter of Plane Tycoon Donald Wills Douglas; and Lieut. William Bruce Arnold, 25, second son of General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Forces chief; in Los Angeles. Married. Band Leader James ("Kay") Kyser, 38, schmaltzy "Professor of Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl"), now Kyser's sweet-voiced vocalist; both for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Died. Josef Beck, 49, Poland's unpopular, unscrupulous, prewar Foreign Minister; after long illness; near Bucharest. A protEgE of Dictator-Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who made him Foreign Minister (at 38, the youngest in Europe), "Little Joe" soon made a reputation for himself as one of Europe's most ruthless diplomats. Pro-German and anti-Russian, he smoothly signed ten-year nonaggression pacts with both countries, smartly propagandized Poland as the balance-of-power nation in Europe. He fled to Rumania when the Nazis invaded, was caught when he tried to flee that equally occupied country. Died. Juliana Cutting, 73, New York's premier social secretary ; after a stroke ; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of Banker Robert Livingston Cutting, she made her debut in 1890; when the family fortune faded, set herself up as a party maker to Society. Blue-eyed, blue-blooded Miss Cutting recommended "a boy and a half to a girl if a dinner dance, and two to one if a supper dance," kept a famed blue book of 2,000 acceptable young men (Miss Cutting's List), admitted only 100 debutantes to her select list each season. Overseer at hundreds of social functions, she arranged the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania.

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