Born. To Lauren Bacall, 24, leggy cinemactress (To Have and Have Not, Key Largo), and Humphrey Bogart, 48, cinema tough-guy (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Key Largo): their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephen Humphrey. Weight: 6 Ibs. 6 oz.

Married. Wanda Hendrix, 20, green-eyed, up & coming cinemactress (Ride the Pink Horse, Miss Tatlock's Millions); and Audie Murphy, 24, rookie cinemactor and World War II's most beribboned U.S. soldier (18 medals and decorations, plus the Medal of Honor); in Los Angeles.

Died. Tommy Handley, 55, Britain's No. 1 radio comic and a favorite of the royal family (George VI persuaded the BBC to change Handley's broadcast time so the family could listen without upsetting palace dinner routine); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Handley's weekly ITMA ("It's That Man Again") program of puns and silly syllogisms mystified G.I.s but convulsed 21 million Britons.*

Died. Firth Shephard, 57, top British theatrical producer who hit the jackpot showing London such U.S. hits as Arsenic and Old Lace and The Man Who Came to Dinner; of a heart ailment; in London.

Died. Victor Fleming, 60, top-drawer Hollywood director (Joan of Arc); of a heart attack; near Cottonwood, Ariz. Fleming made his reputation directing Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow (Test Pilot, Captains Courageous, Bombshell), won a 1939 Oscar for Gone With the Wind.

Died. General Yoshijiro Umezu, 66, onetime chief of the Japanese army's general staff (he signed the surrender), convicted as a war criminal and given a life sentence; of cancer; in Tokyo.

Died. Dr. August Herman Pfund, 69, longtime Johns Hopkins University physicist, authority on optics and infra-red rays (he developed an instrument which could measure the heat of a candle 18 miles away); of a heart ailment; in Baltimore.

Died. Robert I. Aitken, 70, noted sculptor, whose public monuments and statues are sightseeing musts in many U.S. cities; after long illness; in Manhattan. His major work: the west pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court building, in which he included a statue of himself.

Died. Dr. Clyde Fisher, 70, longtime chief of astronomy of New York City's American Museum of Natural History, founding father and first curator of the museum's famed Hayden Planetarium; after long illness; in Manhattan.

*British-born Bob Hope once admitted: "It's too fast for me."

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