Born. To Jay Gould III, 26, wartime AAFlyer, great-grandson of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould, also a flyer in his day and way, and Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Actor Nigel Bruce: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Bruce Jay.

Married. Helen Taft Manning, 24, granddaughter of President William Howard Taft, wartime FEAide in Washington; and Holland Hunter, 24, wartime FEAgent in India; in Rosemont, Pa.

Married. Thurman Wesley Arnold Jr., 26, wartime Navy lieutenant, son of trust-busting Legal Eagle (onetime U.S. Assistant Attorney General) Thurman Arnold, and now a legal eaglet at Yale; and 1943 Debutante Jane Rodgers Lowe, 20; in Manhattan.

Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California.

Divorced. By Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, child bride (at 15) of late Manhattan Millionaire Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, who grew up to be a burlesqueen: Joseph Civelli, 62, San Francisco store executive, her third daddy; in Reno.

Died. Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide rap.

Died. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, 74, lone Jesuit in the College of Cardinals who last April sweetly reasoned into surrender* all Axis forces in & about his Archbishopric of Genoa; of a heart attack; in Genoa,

Died. E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, 79, London-born "prince of storytellers," publisher-publicized as history's most prolific writer, who dictated more than 150 intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German spy.

*Said German Ernst Haeckel: "Not even the clearest and most precise logic makes a man a match for a Jesuit."

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