Born. To Rocky Graziano, 25, hammer-fisted hoodlum of boxing, world's middle weight champion (barred from most boxing rings), and Norma Levine Graziano, 22: their second child, second daughter; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Name: Roxee Lynn. Weight: 6 lbs. 15 oz.

Died. Douglas H. Cooke, 61, onetime publisher of Leslie's Weekly, Judge, and the old Life magazine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In the '20s, he printed the chipper early works of Robert Benchley and John Held Jr., turned conservative when the magazines and the era folded, became a publisher of hospital magazines.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Clifton Daggett Gray, 73, Baptist theologian and third president (1920-44) of Bates College (which sanctioned undergraduate smoking and dancing, doubled in size and endowment under his administration); of a heart ailment; in Kennebunk, Me. In 1927 he emerged undefeated from a debate with Clarence Darrow on the subject: "What and Why Is Man?"

Death Revealed. Yahya, 77, Imam of Yemen; of undetermined causes; in Sana, Yemen (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Robert Patterson Lament,* 80, Secretary of Commerce under Hoover (1929-32); after long illness; in Manhattan. Lamont (he resigned over 20 major directorships when he went to Washington) always insisted that prosperity was "just around the corner"; as president of the American Iron & Steel Institute for 13 months (August 1932-September 1933), he bucked the New Deal tide, finally quit, inveighing against the idea of government in industry: "No one knows how far it may go. . . ."

Died. Reginald William Rives, 86, leading figure in the dying patrician sport of coaching, member of the Coaching Club since 1883; in Manhattan. Stubborn Socialite-Horseman Rives resisted vigorously as newfangled horseless carriages crowded coaches off the streets, won a 1906 lawsuit in which he charged that an auto had ruined the nerves of one of his horses. He became a gallant last-survivor of the era of beaver hats and smartly tooled four-in-hands.

Died. James Herbert McGraw, 87, founder of the McGraw-Hill publishing empire (38 trade magazines and the largest technical book publishing house in the world); after long illness; in San Francisco. In 1885, Schoolteacher McGraw joined the American Railway Publishing Co., later bought an interest in it for $2,500. A spectacularly successful publisher for 50 years, he always claimed that he liked schoolteaching better.

* No kin to the late financier-philanthropist, Thomas William Lamont (TIME, Feb. 16).

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