Born. To Marlon Brando, 34, cinemactor, and India-born Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 23, who denies strong evidence that she was little Joanie O'Callaghan when her father, an Irish employee of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, enrolled her in school in Darjeeling: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Christian.

Died. Thomas Lunsford Stokes, 59, Pulitzer prizewinning old-school newsman (motto: "A reporter is half brain, half legs"), University of Georgia Phi Beta Kappa who got his early lessons in journalism on Southern newspapers and the U.P., in political reporting under the late Raymond Clapper in the '205; of a brain tumor; in Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers when illness overtook him this year (TIME, March 24).

Died. F. Hugh Herbert, 60, Vienna-born playwright (Kiss and Tell, The Moon Is Blue) and screenwriter (Sitting Pretty; Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay); of lung cancer; in Los Angeles.

Died. Elmer Holmes Davis, 68, Hoo-sier-twanging radio news analyst, World War II head of the Office of War Information, a founding father of ADA, sometime novelist, essayist (But We Were Born Free), idealist ("It's better to be a dead lion than a live dog"); of complications following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A Rhodes scholar who wrote personal letters in finest Latin, Davis was a longtime (1914-24) New York Times reporter and editorial writer.

Died. William Borberg, 72, Denmark's chief U.N. representative until 1956, longtime (1928-40) permanent delegate to the League of Nations; in Copenhagen.

Died. Eugene Francis McDonald Jr.,

72, founder-president and board chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., globe-trotting adventurer who persuaded the Navy to use short wave radio by going to the Arctic in 1925 and working a ship 12,000 miles away in New Zealand waters, also flew his own glider, raced outboards, mined gold in Mexico, lived on a yacht on the Chicago River, managed to build his company's sales to over $160 million in 1957; of cancer; in Chicago.

Died. James Drummond Dole, 80, Boston-born, Harvard-educated "Pineapple King," founder in 1901 of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., which made big business of the islands' exportation of the fruit, now has annual sales of more than $80 million, leads the $117 million industry in Hawaii; of a heart attack; in Honolulu.

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