Born. To Edwina Sandys Dixon, 23, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, and Piers Dixon, 33, banker son of Sir Pierson Dixon, British Ambassador to France: their first child, a boy; in London.

Died. John Shubert, 53, dour, second-generation head of a backstage family that owned and ran the nation's biggest chain of legitimate theaters (17 of the 33 on Broadway, others in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati); of a heart attack; aboard a train bound for Florida. True to Shubert's instructions, his funeral took place on the stage of the Majestic Theater, with his widow seated by the casket, and some 1,200 mourners and business associates in the orchestra and balconies. No clergy officiated at the rites held, as the theater owner requested, "on a non-matinee day."

Died. George Joseph Maurer, 56, senior reading clerk of the House of Representatives since 1943, a stentorian speaker who could call the roll of 437 members in less than 20 minutes, or plow through a 90-page bill unnoticeably abridging the tedious parts; of a heart attack; in Westfield, N.J.

Died. Harry F. Reutlinger, 66, longtime newsman on Hearst's Chicago American, who started as a copy boy in 1914 and, on the strength of such scoops as the Black Sox baseball scandal and the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note, climbed to city editor (1936-51) and managing editor (1951-60); of cancer; in Chicago. In 1938, guessing that a daredevilish pilot named Douglas Corrigan might not fly to Los Angeles from New York as he had told civil aeronautics officials, Reutlinger put in transatlantic phone calls to major Irish airports. Reaching Corrigan just after the flyer landed his single-engined monoplane at Dublin, the newsman prompted, "Fly the wrong way?" "I sure did," said the pilot, forever after famed as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. "Stick to that," advised Reutlinger. "It's the best story you can get."

Died. Sao Shwe Thaike, 66, first President of the Union of Burma from 1948 to 1952, hereditary leader of the Shan tribe, and thought by Burma's military to be a key man behind the Shan separatist movement; he was arrested in last March's coup, when troops surrounded his rambling Rangoon mansion and shot to death his 17-year-old son; of a heart attack; while under detention in an army camp outside Rangoon.

Died. Dennis Chavez, 74, a descendant of Spanish pioneers, who served six terms as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico; of a heart attack; in Washington. Devoted to the task of getting federal funds for his water-short state, roughly a third of whose population speaks Spanish. Democrat Chavez pushed aid through Congress -- $1 billion this year alone -- to rechannel the Rio Grande and, among other things, to bring water from the Colorado River to create new Navajo farm land. To his responsive voters, Chavez always could say: "Soy uno de ustedes," meaning, "I am one of you."

Died. Niels Henrik David Bohr, 77 Danish physicist, explorer of the architecture of the atom; of a stroke; in Copenhagen (see SCIENCE).

Died. Rene Jules Gustave Coty, 80, last President of France's Fourth Republic, a Norman lawyer who became his nation's beloved symbolic chief-of-state and tactful tenant of the Elysee Palace from 1953 to 1959; of heart complications and influenza; in Le Havre. An obscure senator, Coty was the Parliament's compromise choice to break a twelve-ballot deadlock, and once in office turned his ceremonial position into a center of stability in a time of splintered politics. Cabinet crises and bloody colonial wars. In May 1958, with France on the verge of civil war, Coty dramatically threatened to resign, forcing a bitterly divided Parliament to accept as Premier his eventual successor in the Fifth Republic, General Charles de Gaulle.

Died. Admiral Sir Gerald Charles Dickens, 83, grandson of Novelist Charles Dickens and son of Old Bailey Jurist Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, a writer on naval strategy and a steadfast careerist in Britain's senior service, who began as a midshipman at 15 and rose to flag rank with a battle record that stretched from Gallipoli in 1914 to North Africa in World War II; of a heart attack; in London.

Died. Jasper McLevy, 84, longtime Socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Conn.; of a stroke; in Bridgeport (see THE NATION).

Died. Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, 88, daughter of Humorist Mark Twain and the only one of his three children to outlive him, a keen and accomplished woman who assisted her father on his globe-trotting lecture tours, became a concert singer after his death in 1910. and refused until last August to release his scorching antireligious essays, Letters from the Earth, because she did not believe the world ready for them; of a heart ailment; in San Diego.

Died. James Bone, 90, one of Fleet Street's best-known journalists. London editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1912 to 1945, a craggy Scot who enjoyed his role as friend and unofficial mentor of two generations of U.S. journalists abroad, so many, in fact, that he once wryly observed, "London without Americans is almost inconceivable, especially to Americans"; of a stroke; in Tilford, England.

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