Born. To Audrey Madden Chickering and TIME'S late Correspondent William Henry Chickering: a son, their second, ten days after Correspondent Chickering was killed by enemy air action in Lingayen Gulf (TIME, Jan. 22); in San Francisco. Name: William Henry III. Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz.

Born. To Corporal Billy Conn, 27, Pittsburgh's curly-haired ex-light heavyweight champ who survived 13 rounds with Joe Louis and one grade B Hollywood role, now putting on boxing shows for U.S. troops in Europe; and Mary Louise Smith Conn, 22; their second child, second son; in Pittsburgh. Weight: 9 lbs.

Divorced. Donald M. Nelson, 56, special assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, ex-WPBoss, onetime Soars, Roebuck bigwig; by blond, childless Helen W. Nelson, 51; after 18 years of marriage, four of separation; in Chicago.

Died. Francis T. Maloney, 50, New Dealing senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut; of a heart attack; in Meriden. In 22 years, he rose from counterman in an all-night lunchroom to city editor of the Meriden Record, to Mayor, to Congressman, to U.S. Senator. He had become known as an able though infrequent orator, a "Senator's Senator."

Died. Edouard Bourdet, 58, sharp-nosed French playwright, onetime director of the haughty Comedie Franc,aise, De Gaulle's drama and music expert in the Ministry of Education since last November; of a stroke; in Paris. U.S. theatergoers knew him best for La Prisonniere, a play about Lesbianism which opened in Manhattan as The Captive, closed at the suggestion of the police.

Died. Major Arthur Corbett-Smith, 65, author and publicist; by his own hand (gun shot); in Margate, England. In a note to the police he explained: "I've had a very wonderful life, but I'm too old now. . . . I view with loathing the incidence and stigmata of old age. Age, with rare exceptions, is repulsive to look upon, and its so-called wisdoms are very problematical. Every man and woman at the age of 60 should show cause why he or she should continue to exist. . . ."

Died. Gilbert Patten ("Burt L. Standish"), 78, author-creator of famed fictional Hero Frank Merriwell, whose 1,236 marvelous paperbacked adventures thrilled millions of American boys at the turn of the century; of a heart attack; in Vista, Calif. Working on a salary (highest: $150 a week) for Publishers Street & Smith, Standish never received a royalty payment from the sale of 125,000,000 copies of his best-selling 5-c- thrillers.

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