Born. To Orson Welles, 40, roly-poly jack-of-all-theatrical-trades, and Paola Mori, 25, Italian cinemactress: their first child, a daughter (his third). Name: Beatrice Giuditta. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Divorced. Mel Torme, 29, wheezy radio and screen crooner; by Candy Toxton (real name: Florence Toxstein), 29, onetime cinemactress (Knock on Any Door) ; after six years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Sam Byrd, 47, actor, producer and novelist, who set a Broadway record with 1,151 consecutive performances (1933-36) as Dude Lester in Tobacco Road, during which time he bounced 18 squash balls to shreds against Jeeter Lester's poor-white shack; of leukemia; in Durham, N.C.

Died. Paul Crouch, 52, on-again-off-again ex-Communist witness who got $9,675 for his two-year service as a Government-paid informer, then turned on Attorney General Herbert Brownell and his top deputy William Rogers when discrepancies were spotted in his testimony; of lung cancer; in San Francisco. Crouch in 1953 wrote a seven-page memo that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy used as the basis of his investigations of subversion in the Army.

"Died. James Price Johnson, 61, jazz pianist, composer, teacher (star pupil: "Fats" Waller); of a stroke; in New York City. Among his 500 compositions: the original Charleston, If I Could Be with You, the opera Dreamy Kid.

Died. Marquis James, 64, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner* for history (The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rye, N.Y. Of historical writing, he said: "Many good writers . . . are lazy and shallow about their research . . . most of the . . . competent researchists can't write for sour apples."

Died. Lloyd Bacon, 65, Hollywood director of oldtime Mack Sennett two-reelers and of Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, the first major talkie (his latest: The French Line); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Burbank, Calif.

Died. Daniel J. Tobin, 80, president of the A.F.L.'s Teamsters Union from 1907 to 1952, vice president of the A.F.L. from 1933 to 1955, last of the Gompers Era labor leaders who saw the Teamsters' membership rise from less than 30,000 to 1,250,000, violated the Gompers' doctrine of apoliticality by plumping heavily for Roosevelt and Truman; in Indianapolis.

* The third Pulitzer Prizewinner to die within seven days. The others: Robert Emmet Sherwood (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES), Bernard DeVoto (see EDUCATION).

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