Born. To Jean Simmons, 32, hazel-eyed, British-born cinemactress, and Richard Brooks, 49, who directed her in his Oscar-winning Elmer Gantry: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood.

Born. To Manda Jane Pearson, 37, harried housewife, and Marion Pearson, 43, itinerant TV repairman: a reported U.S. record-setting seventh consecutive set of twins, their 17th and 18th children (of whom 13 survive); in Jacksonville, Fla.'s Duval Medical Center.

Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France.

Married. Thomas Albert Cronin, 45, silver-haired, carping Crichton who left his $46.80-a-week Kensington Palace post after 25 days because of the bohemian and meddlesome ways of Master Tony Armstrong-Jones, wrote some embarrassing memoirs and migrated to Florida as $300-a-week butler-host of the Dania Jai-Alai Palace; and May Groom, 50, grandmotherly shebeen queen of a London pub; he for the first time, she for the second; in London.

Died. Whittaker Chambers, 60, eloquent, eye-opening ex-Communist whose 1949 testimony sent Alger Hiss to prison; of a heart attack; in Westminster, Md. (see THE NATION).

Died. Mary Landon Baker, 61, eccentric altar ego, tabloid-titillating ''shy bride" of the 1920's, who left Millionaire Fiance Alister McCormick at the Chicago church three times in 1922, spurned all the rest of her claimed 65 proposals from an Almanach de Gotha of suitors, made even her well-heeled father "fed up to the limit with Mary's caprices"; in London.

Died. Mazo de la Roche, 82, most popular and prolific novelist in Canadian history, whose Whiteoaks of Jalna kept one foot in never-never land, the other on the bestseller lists of three continents (U.S. sales of the 16-romance series: over 2,000,000); after a long illness; in Toronto.

Died. Lord McGowan, 87, longtime leading British industrialist and cartel-championing munitions maker ("I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides; I am not a purist in these things"), a working-class Scotsman (born Harry David McGowan) who started at 15 as a $1.25-a-week office boy with Nobel's Explosives Co., became co-founder and chairman (1930-50) of the monolithic Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.; in London.

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