Born. To Carol Charming, 32, doll-eyed musicomedienne who rocked Broadway as the dimwitted gold digger in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Alexander Carson, 29, former private eye and now pro-football center (Ottawa Rough Riders): their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Channing. Weight: 9 Ibs. 2 oz.

Divorced. By Hedy Lamarr, 38, Vienna-born screen beauty (Algiers, Samson and Delilah): her fourth husband, Ernest ("Ted") Stauffer, 44, Acapulco, Mex. nightclub owner; after less than two years of marriage, 14 months of separation; in Hollywood.

Died. Captain Warner R. Edsall, 48, skipper since last September of the battleship Missouri; of a heart attack; aboard his ship in Sasebo harbor, Japan.

Died. James Francis (Jim) Thorpe, 64, one of the great athletes of all time; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles, Calif. (see SPORT).

Died. Marshall Ballard, 73, longtime (1907-47) editor of the New Orleans Item; in New Orleans. A crony of Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places").

Died. Ezequiel Pedro Paz, 81, editor and publisher (1898-1943) of Argentina's La Prensa; in Buenos Aires. A towering, pince-nezed aristocrat, he made the newspaper founded by his father into one of the world's great dailies, equaled only by the New York Times in international coverage. He wrote his own, firmly righteous editorials, personally tongue-lashed employees who fell below his lofty standards and exiled them from the office for a week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported the death of a famed Spanish baritone, he would not print an ad for the singer's latest Buenos Aires concert. Barely conscious since a cerebral hemorrhage in 1943, Don Ezequiel was never told of La Prensa's seizure by Dictator Juan Peron in 1951, died without even a one-line obituary in his old paper.

Died. Queen Mary of Great Britain, 85; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Frederic Adrian ("Uncle Fred") Delano, 89, Hong Kong-born railway executive, city planner (he beautified Washington as its 1924-42 park & planning chief), and uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom he served for nine years as chairman of the National Resources Planning Commission; in Washington.

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