Born. To Frederick Bernard Snite Jr., 35, world-traveling infantile-paralysis victim who has spent most of the last nine years in an iron lung; and Teresa Larkin Snite, 31: their third child, third daughter; in Chicago. Weight: 5 Ibs. 14 oz.

Married. Margaret Rutherford, 53, the late Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's daughter who became ballerina, cultist (Oom the Omnipotent), husband collector; and Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat, 53, great-grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; she for the fifth time (once before to Murat), he for the second (she was also his first); in Manhattan.

Died. Argentinita (real name: Encarnacion Lopez),* 47, whose brilliant footwork, miming and castanet playing earned her critical as well as public cheers; after two major operations, 17 blood transfusions; in Manhattan. Born in Buenos Aires but raised in Spain by her Castilian parents, she took her stage name from her childhood nickname, "the little Argentinian."

Died. Bela BartOk, 64, prolific Hungarian composer of piquant, sometimes cacophonous orchestral and chamber music; longtime student of Magyar and Yugoslav folk music; after long illness; in Manhattan, his home since 1940. A radical modernist, BartOk in 1938 wrote Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin especially for his friend Joseph Szigeti's violin and Benny Goodman's rippling clarinet.

Died. Dr. Charles Whitney Gilmore, 71, National Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology, who discovered and reconstructed the gigantic prehistoric Diplodocus, one of the lamest-brained creatures on record (70-to-80 ft. long, 15-to-30 tons, apple-sized cranium); after a stroke; in Washington, D.C. '

Died. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 78, neuropsychiatrist, editor (Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease), belligerent Freudian, whose testimony in 1907 saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair; after long illness; at Huletts Landing, N.Y. He once told a group of fellow alienists that he believed Irving Berlin's mother must have had a syncopated heartbeat; a surprised confrere said that he had examined her and found she had.

Died. Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, 85, Kansas City dowager who set out when she was past 60 to shower Washington society with champagne and Sunshine biscuits, eventually decided she had "gone pretty far for a baker's widow" [Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.]; after long illness; in Kansas City.

* Not to be confused with La Argentina (real name: Antonia Merce), more widely famed Span ish dancer who died in 1936.

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