Adopted. By James Roosevelt, 52, Democratic Congressman from California, oldest son of F.D.R., and his third wife Gladys Irene Owens Roosevelt, 40: their first child (Jimmy has three children by his second wife, none by the first), a six-months-old boy. Name: Hall Delano.

Married. Elizabeth Ickes, 18, daughter of the late Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior under F.D.R.; and Djahangir Boushehri, 35, an Iranian director of the International Monetary Fund; in an Episcopal ceremony at the Ickes farm in Olney, Md., followed by a Moslem ceremony in Washington.

Married. Peter Townsend, 45, R.A.F. hero of the Battle of Britain who was prevented from marrying Britain's Princess Margaret because he was a divorced man; and Marie-Luce Jamagne, 20, daughter of a wealthy Belgian tobacco man; in Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium.

Died. Truman Bailey, 57, designer and craftsman who was inspired by the rich variety of artifacts he uncovered in Peru to set up a shop to revive long-dormant native arts, developed such a thriving export business that the Peruvian government took it over; in Lima, Peru.

Died. Pierre de Gaulle, 62, younger brother of French President Charles de Gaulle, a Paris Banker who won the Croix de guerre in World War I combat, was jailed by the Gestapo in 1943 for being a Resistance cell leader; helped his brother form the postwar R.P.F. (Rally of the French People), and became mayor of Paris (1947-51); after surgery; in Paris.

Died. Lawrence Richey, 74, onetime journalist, tight-lipped secretary and longtime confidant to President Herbert Hoover, who as a special agent assigned to the U.S. Secret Service suggested that J. Edgar Hoover might make a good Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; while flying home to Washington after his annual Christmas visit to the ex-President in New York.

Died. John Oliver La Gorce, 79, longtime writer (1905-59) and editor (1954-57) of the National Geographic Magazine, who reported scenery and customs from remote parts of the world where he constantly traveled, gave his name to a glacier in Alaska, a mountain peak in Antarctica, and an island off Miami; in Washington.

Died. W. (for William) Cameron Forbes, 89, Boston banker and Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandson who served (1909-13) as a popular Governor General of the Philippine Islands where he promoted industrialization and introduced polo; in Boston.

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