Born. To Earl Belle, 27, Pittsburgh's boy wonder of finance, who ran off to Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro, and Naoma Wallman, 25, blondish showgirl: their first child, a son; in Rio de Janeiro. Name: Clint Randolph. Weight: 7 lbs. 5 oz.

Died. Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice reflected the tragedy of her own life; in Manhattan. Born of indigent teenagers, schooled in a Baltimore brothel, she stubbornly nursed her resentment, poured it out in songs that reached their height of popularity in the early '40s -- Billie's Blues, The Man I Love, above all, Strange Fruit, a description of a Negro lynching in the South -- succumbed to the dope addiction which dogged her to the end.

Died. Ernest Bloch, 78, Swiss-born composer (Schelomo, America), who captured in his orchestral and chamber music the youthful ardor of his adopted land, the U.S., and the indomitable spirit of his Jewish heritage, combined the tried music of the old masters with the experimental techniques of the moderns in a rich synthesis, discouraged cliques by living in isolation on the rocky coast of Oregon; of cancer; in Portland, Ore.

Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Agostino Gemelli, 81, Roman Catholic theologian who served (1936-59) as president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, wrote prolifically on matters of health and morals, flayed Freud and denied the possibility of extraterrestrial life, was a confidant to Pope Pius XI ; in Milan, Italy.

Died. Eugene Meyer, 83, publisher, board chairman of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, who served his country with distinction: governor of the Federal Reserve Board (1930-33), first chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), first president of the World Bank (1946); in Washington. At 57, Meyer capped a successful career as a financier by buying the bankrupt Post (1933 daily circulation: 62,000), over the years strengthened editorial policy, bought (1954) from Colonel Robert R. McCormick the Post's biggest Washington rival and political antithesis, the Times-Herald, boosted the daily circulation of the combined papers to 390,000.

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