Born. To Edward M. ("Teddy") Kennedy, 29, the President's youngest brother, and Joan Bennett Kennedy, 24: their second child (No. 20 on the list of presidential nieces and nephews), a son; in Boston.

Born. To Oscar-winning Actress Joanne (The Three Faces of Eve) Woodward, 31, and Actor Paul (The Hustler) Newman, 36: their second daughter, Newman's fifth child (three by an earlier marriage); in Hollywood.

Born. To Nat King Cole, 42, breathy ballad crooner, and sometime Singer Maria Ellington Cole, 37: identical twin daughters, their fourth and fifth children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Married. Cathy Crosby, 22, daughter of Bandleader Bob and only female vocalist in the Crosby clan; and Edwin Gilbert, 32, scion of a Texas oil family; both for the first time; in Houston's St. John the Divine Episcopal Church.

Died. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, just 14 days after he married his sixth wife, 30-year-old Painter Alicja Darr Purdom; in his sleep; in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Died. Frank Fay, 64, wry stage and screen comedian whose up-and-down career was climaxed by his five-year performance as Elwood P. Dowd, the alcoholic confidant of that invisible, 6-ft. rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of deadly humor (his reply to Milton Berle's challenge to a duel of wits: "I never fight with an unarmed man"), Fay made his first theater appearance at four, by the 1920s had racked up record runs at New York's old Palace Theater, but after a series of nonsmash movies and a 1935 divorce--his third--from Actress Barbara Stanwyck, disappeared into impoverished near retirement until 1944, when Harvey brought him renewed fame and earnings of over $500,000.

Died. Juanita Hansen, 66, blonde heroine of the silent screen's daredevil thriller serials, who was dragged from Hollywood's heights by dope addiction, later broke the habit and toured the country lecturing on the evils of narcotics, eventually settled down as a Southern Pacific train dispatcher; of a heart attack; in West Hollywood, Calif.

Died. Sumner Welles, 68, urbane, aristocratic architect of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation--and virtual retirement--in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants diplomacy, Welles was widely admired in Latin America for his successful fight to end armed U.S. intervention in Latin affairs, and among his diplomatic peers rated as a tough, knowledgeable activist who early in World War II whipped the hemispheric nations into an almost solid front against the Axis.

Died. Charles Erwin Wilson, 71, ex-president of General Motors, who as Dwight Eisenhower's first Secretary of Defense was regularly undone by his unpolitical addiction to utter candor; of a heart attack; at his Norwood, La., plantation (see THE NATION).

Died. Hilda Doolittle, 75, Pennsylvania-born expatriate poet (Sea Garden, By Avon River), whose carefully chiseled lyric verse, signed "H.D.," represented the high-water mark of the imagist movement that before World War I broke away from formalized poetry into "words that make images"; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland. Sample image:

The hard sand breaks,

and the grains of it

are clear as wine.

Died. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, 75, tall, rugged ramrod of the Pacific War who led the first successful U.S. ground offensive against the Japanese at New Guinea's bloody Buna Beach, later commanded the famed "Amphibious Eighth" Army in more than 60 amphibious assaults, and was the first U.S. general officer to land in conquered Japan; of pneumonia following surgery; in Asheville, N.C. A soldier's soldier who believed that "the best way for a general to find out what is happening is to go up where the bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first combat in 1918 as a member of the U.S. Expeditionary Force in Siberia (where he won three Japanese medals for bravery), earned an enduring place in the affections of Army men by bringing in winning Football Coach Earl Blaik during a prewar tour as Superintendent of West Point, and won equal, if somewhat more ironic, affection as a postwar Japanese occupation commander, where his friendly, homespun ways symbolized U.S. democracy and fairness.

Died. Countess Marguerite Cassini, 79, mother of Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and New York Society Columnist Igor ("Chol-ly Knickerbocker") Cassini, a spirited Russian matriarch who was the belle of Washington during the McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt Administrations, when her father was Czarist Ambassador to the U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York.

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