Born. To Clifford Odets, 38, brilliant leftish playwright of the '30s (Waiting for Lefty), who cashed in on his talents as a Hollywood writer-director (None But the Lonely Heart), and Bette Grayson Odets, 26, his second wife: their (and his) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 5 lbs.

Married. Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 21 ; and Leopold Antoni Stokowski, sixtyish;*he for the third time, she for the second; one day after her divorce from Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco; in Mexicali, Mexico.

Married. Deems Taylor. 59, popular, mellow-toned composer-critic; and Lucille Watson-Little, 20, whom he met at the Florida winter headquarters of the current Ringling Bros. Circus, for which he arranged the music and she designed costumes; he for the second time, she for the first; in Arlington, Va.

Divorced. By Ailsa Mellon Bruce, fortyish, shy, only daughter of the late multimillionaire Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: Colonel David K. E. Bruce, 47, handsome socialite; after 19 years of marriage; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 44, most beloved of U.S. war correspondents; by Jap machine-gun fire; on newly invaded le Jima (see PRESS).

Died. Joseph Vincent Connolly, 50, onetime editorial kingpin of the Hearst empire, hardheaded, hard-working boss of Hearst's King Features and International News Service; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle. N.Y. "Smiling Joe" Connolly made Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Arthur "Bugs" Baer and Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley into prize press packages. A big spender of Hearst's money, he covered King George VI's coronation to the hilt: he hired Lloyd George to report the politics, G.B.S. to make the wisecracks, Grand Duchess Marie to do "the women's angle."

Died. Sir Ambrose Fleming, 95, one of Britain's foremost electrical scientists and pioneer in radio's development, inventor of the diode valve (predecessor of the radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933, when he was 83, stately Sir Ambrose took a 34-year-old bride, six years later emerged from retirement to attack scientific theories of evolution, affirmed his belief in the miracles and prophecies of the Bible.

*Ailing (neuritis, shingles) Bridegroom Stokowski's exact age is unknown, varies from 58 to 63. In the 1945 edition of Who's Who, Stokowski lists his birth date as April, 1887; in the 1924 edition it was April 18, 1882.

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