Born. To Kwame Nkrumah, 49, Prime Minister of Ghana, and Fatia Nkrumah, 29, his Christian Egyptian wife: their first child, a son; in Accra. Name: Kweku.*

Marriage Revealed. Joe Louis, 44, heavyweight champion (1937-48), who recently formed a film company to do a TV series based on his life; and Martha Jefferson, 46, Los Angeles attorney, still a law partner of her previous husband; his fourth marriage, third wife (the first Mrs. Louis remarried him after a divorce) ; in Winterhaven, Calif., March n.

Died. Lester Willis ("Prez") Young, 49, whose light and easy tenor saxophone was among the coolest in the history of jazz, Mississippi-born alumnus of the Count Basie band; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young became known as "The President" for his superiority in his field. His early influence helped bop to be.

Died. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, 56, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H. (the reaper) McCormick, World War II WAC sergeant who later bought a $900 blue-and-buff colonial uniform to wear in July 4 parades; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Sidney Earle Smith, 62, Canada's well-traveled Secretary of State for External Affairs, Nova Scotia-born lawyer who gave most of his career to education, was president of the University of Manitoba (1934-44) and the University of Toronto (1945-57), entered politics at 60 when--soon after the first Tory election victory in 22 years--he accepted the External Affairs portfolio in 1957; of a cere-'bral hemorrhage; in Ottawa.

Died. Howard Ehmke, 64, major-league right-handed pitcher who started out with the Detroit Tigers, moved on to the Boston Red Sox (no hitter v. Philadelphia in 1923), and reached his high moment, playing for Philadelphia at the end of his career, when Connie Mack summoned him from the boneyard to be a surprise starter in the first game of the 1929 World Series and he struck out 13 Chicago Cubs (including Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson) to set a series record that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century--until Brooklyn's Carl Erskine mowed down 14 Yankees in the 1953 series; of cerebral meningitis; in Philadelphia.

Died. Edwin Balmer, 75, novelist (coauthor with Philip Wylie of When Worlds Collide), longtime (1927-49) editor of Redbook magazine; of a heart attack; in North Tarrytown, N.Y.

Died. Paul Weeks Litchfield, 83, topflight tire-and-rubber man and Akron civic leader, longtime president (1926-40) and board chairman (1930-58) of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., developer of the first pneumatic tires for airplanes, early dedicated apostle of airship travel, manufacturer of blimps and military airplanes; following surgery; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Died. Olga Knipper-Chekhova, 89, widow of Anton Chekhov (who called her "my little crocodile"), Moscow Art Theater actress for 40 years; in Moscow.

Died. John ("General") Sailing, 112, one of the two surviving veterans of the Civil War, sometime railroader, farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier--Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956--but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil War's last man.

* Meaning: Wednesday. Ghanaian children are traditionally named for the day of the week on which they are born. Kwame means Saturday.

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