Born. To Edward F. ("Ed") Gardner, 43, radio's "Archie," arch-bartender and manager of Duffy's Tavern, and second wife Simone Hegeman Gardner, 34: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Stephen Anthony. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Born. To Harry Renton Bridges, 46, recently ousted northern California regional director of the C.I.O. (but still head of its International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union), and second wife Nancy Fenton Berdecio Bridges, 35, onetime professional dancer: their second child, his, third, a son; in San Francisco. Name: Harry Renton Jr. Weight: 5 Ibs. 10 1/2 oz.

Married. Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 42, balding trombonist and bandleader; and Jane New, 23, curvy chorine; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta.

Died. Emile St. Godard, 42, onetime king of the dog-team racers; of cancer; in The Pas, Manitoba. At 19 he won his first major race (200 miles over rough terrain in about 30 hours), later the same year won the Eastern International Dog Derby, so dominated the field for the next ten years that fans referred to the races as "St. Godard against the field." Occasionally he finished tough races with two or three dog-tired huskies riding in the sled.

Died. Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren, 55, Stars & Stripes cartoonist of World War I, whose tireless gouging at MPs, topkicks, cooties and second looies made him the comic favorite of the A.E.F.'s doughboys; of a liver ailment; in Upper Darby, Pa.

Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend-Lease liaison officer and a member of President Roosevelt's five-man Pearl Harbor investigating committee.

Died. Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, 81, onetime Chief of the British Imperial General Staff (1926-33); after long illness; in London. A veteran of Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan and a general officer since 1913, doughty old "Uncle George" served in World War II as an air-raid warden.

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