Born. To Jayne Mansfield, 27, sometime cinemaspirant, who reported that she was "so thrilled I'd like to have 500 more babies," and Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 30, knot-muscled, Hungarian-born Mr. Universe of 1956: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Married. Gene Kelly, 47, stage and screen quadruple-threat man as producer-director-actor-dancer; and Jeanne Coyne, 37, his production assistant; both for the second time; in Tonopah, Nev.

Married. Andre Kostelanetz, 58, Russian-born orchestra conductor whose recordings of homogenized classics and hoked-up pop works have sold some 40 million copies over the past 20 years; and Sara Gene Orcutt, 32, Oklahoma-born divorcee; both for the second time (his first: Soprano Lily Pons); in Honolulu.

Died. Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo, 65, Argentine heavyweight, who in 1923 in boxing's greatest first round, decked Champion Jack Dempsey and later belted him clear out of the ring, but was floored seven times himself and finally finished after three more knockdowns in the second round; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. When Dempsey later visited Firpo, who became a wealthy cattleman, with 10,000 head on six Argentine ranches, he commented: "When a boxer leaves the ring ... he has lost the fight. In my heart, Firpo was world champion of all weights."

Died. Philip Benjamin Perlman, 70, Maryland lawyer, newspaperman (onetime Baltimore Evening Sun city editor and prank-playing crony of H. L. Mencken) and Democratic politician, who from 1947 to 1952 as workhorse Solicitor General of the U.S. personally won an unprecedented 49 cases before the Supreme Court but lost his most famous one, defense of President Truman's 1952 seizure of the steel industry; of heart disease; in Washington. An energetic fighter for civil rights. Perlman was co-chairman of the Platform Committee at last month's Democratic Convention.

Died. First Lieut. Robert Allen (Bob) Gutowski, 25, fluid-formed Marine pole-vaulting champion who held the world's outdoor record (15 ft. 8 1/4 in.) from 1957 until last month's Olympic tryout, which saw Army Pfc. Don Bragg vault one inch higher; in an auto accident; near Oceanside, Calif.

Died. Eldon Lee Edwards, 51, by day an auto-body paint sprayer, by night Imperial Wizard of the self-styled only "true" latter-day Ku Klux Klan, an Atlanta-based organization claiming membership in nine states and believed to be the biggest (an estimated 50,000 "knights") of several Klans still operating; of a heart attack; in College Park, Ga.

Died. Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, a favorite of George Bernard Shaw, A. A. Milne and Noel Coward, and a frequent leading lady in their plays, who was best known in the U.S. as the ghostly first wife in Blithe Spirit in 1941, was married only once (for four years to onetime NBC Vice President John F. Royal) though her "list of fiances," she often said, "included a majority of the peers listed in Debrett's"; of a heart attack; in Vleuten, The Netherlands.

Died. Charles Schneider, 62, head since 1942 of Schneider et Cie, big French holding company (more than $300 million in assets), whose family has been one of Europe's top steel and heavy-equipment manufacturers for four generations; of a heart attack; in Saint-Tropez, France.

Died. Leland Olds, 69, regulation-minded Federal Power Commission member from 1939 to 1949 (mostly as chairman), a zealous New Dealer and longtime target of private power interests, whose third-term nomination was rejected by the Senate following hearings centering on his heavy-breathing socialist writings of the 1920s ("The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people."); of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Lucian C. Sprague, 74, "the doctor of sick railroads," a onetime Burlington call boy for train crews (at age 13), who in 1935 was named president and receiver of the languishing Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, eight years later saw his improvements end its bankruptcy, but was ousted in 1954 by an insurgent stockholders' group for his "gravy-train" extravagances, including a personal expense account of $226 per day; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis.

Died. Mary Hall ("Mother") Tusch, 82, friend and mother-away-from-home to two generations of aviators, whose frame cottage opposite the air-training school on the University of California's Berkeley campus was known as "The Hangar" by thousands of visiting airmen, including Hap Arnold (who dubbed it "the first U.S.O."), Billy Mitchell, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Eddie Rickenbacker from 1915 until 1950; of a stroke; in Washington.

Died. Arthur Meighen, 86, scholarly leader (1920-26) of Canada's Conservative party and, for 17 months in 1920-21, the nation's youngest Prime Minister at 46; in Toronto.

Died. Bernt Gulbrand Morterud, 101, Norwegian-born Chicago cabinetmaker, whose identical twin, Gulbrand, still lives on in Norway--a record of longevity, defying 1 billion to 1 odds; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Chicago.

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