Adopted. By Elizabeth Taylor, 29, Oscar-winning (Butterfield 8) cinema goddess, and Crooner Eddie Fisher, 33: Maria, a one-year-old orphan; announced in Rome. The couple has been "looking for a baby for about two years." Already living with the Fishers are two children of Miss Taylor's by former Husband Michael Wilding and one by Mike Todd. Fisher has two children of his own who live with ex-Wife Debbie Reynolds.

Died. James Spencer Love, 65, wiry, tireless chairman of Burlington Industries, which he personally spun from a shoestring into the world's biggest textile maker (1961 sales: $866 million); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a Harvard math professor, Love returned from World War I at 23 with a major's oak leaves and $3,000 in savings, persuaded industry-hungry North Carolinians to bankroll his first textile mill; he pioneered in synthetics and over the years borrowed heavily to buy dozens of companies, often at bargain-basement prices, and became the tough-minded leader of one of the nation's toughest industries.

Died. Ivan Mestrovic, 78, intense, Croatian-born sculptor of massive religious works, who in 1947, was honored at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art with the first one-man show of a living artist in the museum's history; of a stroke; in South Bend, Ind., where he was resident sculptor at the University of Notre Dame. A devoted Yugoslav patriot, Mestrovic was jailed by Fascists during World War II, exiled himself when the Communists took over.

Died. Richard Henry Tawney, 81, influential British economic historian whose books (Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, The Acquisitive Society, Equality) helped shape the thinking of two generations of Labor Party theorists; in London. A descendant of British freeholders who fought for Cromwell and Parliament, he was a passionate believer in equality, turned down an army commission and fought instead as a sergeant in World War I, later spurned a peerage, lived as a gentle, absent-minded professor. He left his intellectual mark on hundreds of workers, whom he ardently taught in night classes, condemning the ethics of capitalism while setting out in righteous contrast the moral principles of a cooperative order.

Died. Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, 90, genial, imaginative Biblical scholar who in 1923 produced one of the first translations of the New Testament in modern English (The New Testament: An American Translation), continued his lifelong crusade to distill clear 20th century meaning from archaic Biblical language with a steady flow of books and essays (How to Read the Bible, A Life of Jesus); of a stroke; in Los Angeles.

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