Born. To King Hussein of Jordan, 26, and Muna al Hussein (the former Toni Avril Gardiner), 20, daughter of a British army colonel: their first child, a son, whom they named Abdullah after his great-grandfather, the first King of Jordan; in Amman. Long distressed because he had no male offspring--his previous marriage to Egypt's Princess Dina produced only one daughter--the grateful Hussein promptly rewarded his commoner wife by raising her to the rank of Princess.

Born. To Maria Schell, 36, beguiling Vienna-born cinemactress (The Brothers Karamazov, Cimarron), and Horst Hachler, 36, German film director: their first child, a son; in Munich.

Married. Jim Jordan, 64, radio's Fibber McGee, for 21 years (1935-56) the incorrigible comic blowhard of 79 Wistful Vista; and Mrs. Gretchen Stewart, 52, widow of Dialect Comedian Yogi Yorgenson; both for the second time (Jordan's first wife Marian, who was also Fibber McGee's Molly, died last year after 43 years of marriage); in Honolulu.

Died. Ralph Budd, 82, highballing ex-president of the Great Northern Railroad (1919-32) and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1932-49), an internationally famed rehabilitator of railroads who in 1906 rebuilt the line that served the Panama Canal, was a consultant in the reorganization of the Soviet Union's badly managed rail routes in 1930 and introduced America's first diesel-powered streamliners and bubble-dome cars; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Died. William Hard Sr., 83, longtime (since 1940) roving editor of the Reader's Digest, a onetime Chicago settlement-house director who became one of U.S. journalism's first and most effective muckrakers, won fame for his crusades for social reform in articles for the Nation, New Republic and Saturday Evening Post.

Died. Berthe-Eugenie-Alphonsine Hardon Petain, 84, stoic widow of France's Marshal Henri Philippe Petain; after a long illness; in Paris. Married to Petain at the height of his World War I glory as the defender of Verdun, Mme. Petain dutifully shared his World War II ignominy as chief of the puppet Vichy regime, after his postwar sentence for treason followed him to the tiny Ile d'Yeu, where she was his only visitor during six years of solitary confinement, and upon his death in 1951 persuaded the French government to allow him to be buried wearing the Medaille Militaire, France's highest military decoration.

Died. Fritz Kreisler, 86, the greatest violinist of his time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see Music).

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