Born. To Arlene Dahl. 30, red-haired cinema siren (Wicked As They Come), and Fernando Lamas. 43, suave, Argentine-born Broadway actor (Happy Hunting): a son, their first child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Lorenzo Fernando. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.

Born. To Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, 52, gravel-voiced Negro comedian, Jack Benny's radio and television chauffeur, valet and drawling stooge since 1937, interpreter of Noah in both the 1936 movie and last fall's TV versions of The Green Pastures, and Eva Anderson, 25: their first son, second child; in Hollywood. Name: Edmund Lincoln. Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz.

Died. Ataulfo Argenta, 44, Spam's top conductor, who got into hot water (in 1954) for deploring his country's musical isolation under Dictator Franco ("There is only one alternative: renovation or death"), later recanted to save his job; of a heart attack; in Madrid.

Died. Louis Ruppel, 54, flamboyant, crusading reporter, columnist and editor, who began at 20 as a newshound (for the New York American), worked up through the rowdy Chicago press and became Collier's staff-eating, "off-with-their-heads" editor (1949-52); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. As managing editor of the Chicago Times (1935-38), Ruppel doubled its circulation by such tricks as having one of his reporters committed to a state mental hospital to get a series of Page One stories, disguising his photographers as clergymen, using siren-screeching ambulances to deliver World Series photographs. After wartime service as a U.S. Marines officer, he went to Hearst's Chicago Herald-American as executive editor (1945), moved on to Coltier's to salvage the magazine's drooping revenue; tried "an expose a week" but flopped, ended his explosive career as an associate editor of Hearst's Sunday supplement, the American Weekly.

Died. Robert Ralph Young, 60, railroad tycoon; by his own hand (gunshot); in Palm Beach, Fla. (see BUSINESS).

Died. Philip Danforth Armour, 64, onetime first vice president (and grandson of the founder) of Chicago's meat-packing Armour & Co., who resigned (in 1931) in a huff after he failed to become its president; of a heart attack; in his Palm Beach, Fla. home.

Died. Lawrence Henry Smith, 65, longtime (since 1941) anti-foreign-aid-and-trade Republican Representative from Wisconsin's First District (Racine, etc.); of coronary thrombosis; in Washington.

Died. Arthur B. Eisenhower, 71, oldest of the Eisenhower brothers, longtime (1934-56) vice president of Kansas City's Commerce Trust Co., much publicized (in 1953) for his comment that Sen. McCarthy was "the most dangerous menace to America"; of a heart ailment; in Kansas City, Mo.

Died. Claude Gernade Bowers, 79, New Deal diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1933-39) and Chile (1939-53), old-time newspaper editorial writer (New York World), onetime (1928) eloquent Democratic National Convention keynoter, historian (Jefferson and Hamilton) and cultural sentimentalist (The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving), whose Spanish memoirs (My Mission to Spain) blamed Western democracies' Red mirages for dumping the Spanish republic into Fascist hands; in Manhattan.

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