Monday, Oct. 18, 1948

Born. To eden ("only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") ahbez, 36, bearded Hollywood yoga, whose recent attempt at songwriting netted him Nature Boy and a potential $20,000, and anna jacobson ahbez, thirtyish, vegetarian mystic : their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: tatha. Weight: 6 Ibs. 4 oz.

Married. Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 30, Boston Red Sox centerfielder, youngest of the hard-hitting DiMaggio brothers (Vince, Joe and Dom); and Emily Alberta Frederick, 25, pretty brunette; in Wellesley, Mass.

Married. William Franklin ("Billy") Talbert, 30, National Tennis Doubles champ (the U.S. took the Davis Cup for the third straight year when he and Gardnar Mulloy helped beat Australia last month); and Nancy Pike, 25, onetime junior editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, 47, dapper, Russian-born president of Conde Nast Publications (Vogue, Glamour): by Nadejda Gelli-brand Patcevitch, beauteous onetime Vogue (of London) staffer; after fifteen years of marriage, no children; in Reno.

Died. Ted Horn, 38, veteran auto racer, three times American Automobile Association national champion (1946-48), who was never behind fourth for nine straight years at Indianapolis, but never won; of injuries suffered in a race in Du Quoin, Ill.

Died. Gladys Lanphere Benjamin, 55, onetime Broadway actress who left the stage in 1923 to marry Socialite Park Benjamin, divorced him in 1940, ended up destitute; of complications brought on by alcoholism; in Los Angeles.

Died. Rene Benjamin, 63, Royalist French novelist and essayist, who charmed his countrymen during World War I with Gaspard and Grandgoujon, outraged them during the occupation with Le Printemps Tragique, an attack on the Third Republic; following an operation; in Tours, France.

Died. Richard W. Lawrence, 70, New York financier and Chamber of Commerce bigwig, onetime (1928-29) president of the National Republican Club; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, 86, tweedy four-term Democratic governor of Connecticut (1931-39), longtime dean of the Yale Graduate School (1916-30), scholarly editor (1911-40) of the Yale Review, an authority on the 18th Century English novel (The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, A History of Henry Fielding); in New Haven, Conn.

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