Born. To Harold Connolly, 27, the U.S.'s 1956 Olympic hammer-throwing champion and world-record holder, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 26, Czechoslovakia's husky 1956 Olympic women's discus champion, whose stadium romance led to marriage through endless festoons of Red tape: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mark. Weight: 11 Ibs. 13 oz.--just 4 Ibs. 3 oz. less than his father's hammer.

Married. Herb Elliott, 21, Australia's record-holding (3:54.5) miler; and Anne Dudley; in Nedlands, Western Australia.

Married. Frank Loesser, 48, music man who wrote the book, music and lyrics for Broadway's The Most Happy Fella, the music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls, and scores of popular songs, including Baby It's Cold Outside, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, On a Slow Boat to China; and Actress-Singer Jo Sullivan (real name: Elizabeth Josephine Jacobs), 31, who played Rosabella, the mail-order bride, in The Most Happy Fella; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. James G. Polk, 62, Democratic Congressman from Ohio's sixth district (1931-40, and since 1949), who described himself in the Congressional Directory as "one of the few members of Congress whose sole occupation is farming"; of cancer; in Washington.

Died. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, 67, India-born World War II commander of the British First Army, who led his fellow veterans of Dunkirk across North Africa from the west, captured Tunis in 1943; of pneumonia; in Gibraltar, where he had served as governor and commander in chief until his retirement in 1952.

Died. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, M.D., 68, who practiced for 44 years in Farmington, Iowa, received a gold medal last autumn as the American Medical Association's General Practitioner of the Year (TIME, Dec. 15); of a heart attack; in Keokuk.

Died. YekaterinaVoroshilov,seventyish, wife of the Soviet Union's 78-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, whose title--Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet--is the paper equivalent of "President"'; in Moscow.

Died. Reginald Arkell, 76, British novelist (Old Herbaceous), poet, editor and author of numerous musical revues including 1066 and All That; in Cricklade, England. Lampooning the U.S. Prohibition era, Arkell once presented the Statue of Liberty on the London stage with a bottle of whisky in her right hand, fended off transatlantic complaint with the reflection: "Americans made themselves ridiculous over Prohibition without any assistance from me."

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