Born. To Robert Merrill (real name: Robert Miller), 37, Metropolitan Opera baritone, and Marion Machno Merrill. 25: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: David Robert. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz.

Married. Stephen Potter. 55, bony British humorist famed for his puckish "man-ship" books (Gamesmanship, One-Upmanship, Lifemanship); and Mrs. Heather Jenner. 39, blonde, bestselling (Marriage Is My Business) British authority on courtship; both for the second time (her first ended in divorce after her husband accused her of adultery, naming Potter as corespondent); in London.

Died. James Agee, 45. novelist (The Morning Watch), poet (Permit Me Voyage), screen writer (The Quiet One, The African Queen), onetime magazine writer (for FORTUNE) and cinema critic (for TIME); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. George Arthur Sloan, 61, industrialist (U.S. Steel. Goodyear Tire and Rubber) and president (since May 15) of the International Chamber of Commerce, who resigned in April after nine years as chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association, 17 years as a member of the board; after an operation; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, 79. co-founder and president-emeritus of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach. Fla.; of a heart attack; in Daytona Beach (see EDUCATION).

Died. Owen Josephus Roberts, 80, broad-shouldered, broad-gauged Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-45) who gained a reputation as the court's "swing man" by voting independently of either liberal or conservative factions in the pre-Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time to fostering support for a political union of democratic nations. His favorite judicial maxim, drawn from Justice Holmes: "If a law makes you want to puke, then due process has been denied."

Died. Msgr. Antoine Pierre Arida. 91, bearded patriarch of Antioch and all the Orient, spiritual leader of some 500,000 members of the Maronite rite of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the Church's eight patriarchs, who rank just below the College of Cardinals; in Beirut, Lebanon.

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