Born. To Anita Bryant, 24, recording star (Until There Was You), singing sidekick to Bob Hope in four U.S.O. Christmas tours, and Disk Jockey Robert Green, 33: a daughter; in Miami.

Married. Lauritz Melchior, 74, famed Wagnerian tenor now in retirement; and Mary Markham, 40, his onetime secretary, now a top Hollywood booking agent; he for the third time, she for the second; at Melchior's estate near Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Margaret Schulze Downey, 42, one of the nation's richest women, heiress to an estimated $150 million concentrated mainly in Newmont Mining Co. and Magma Copper Co. (founded by Grandfather William Boyce Thompson), a pretty brunette who briefly filled the gossip columns in the late '40s when her divorce from polo-playing Polish Prince Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen prompted him to shoot himself (he recovered), settled down to marry Morton Downey, radio's dulcet-toned troubadour of the '30s, and take an active director's role in minding her business; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. DeLesseps ("Chep") Morrison, 52, longtime mayor of New Orleans (1946-61) and Kennedy's ambassador to the Organization of American States (1961-63), an ebullient, debonair politician who spearheaded a reform movement to bring trade, industry and an honest police force to his city, but could never quite carry his messages to Louisiana at large in three unsuccessful campaigns for Governor; in the crash of a chartered plane carrying six others, including his seven-year-old son, Randy; near Quajolota, Mexico.

Died. Austen Herbert Groom-John son, 54, co-father of the singing commercial, a onetime NBC program idea man who teamed with Announcer Alan Kent in 1939 to write "Pepsi-Cola Hits the Spot," a jingle that jangled for 20 years until Pepsi decided to "be sociable"; of a heart attack; in New York.

Died. Steve Owen, 66, longtime (1931-53) coach of the New York Giants, onetime cowpuncher from Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip, who played a bone-bruising tackle for five years for the Giants, as coach won eight Eastern Division titles and two world cham pionships, retired in 1953 when the razzle-dazzle aerial game found him wanting in the win column; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Oneida, N.Y.

Died. Arthur Hugh Bunker, 68, retired chairman since 1960 of American Metal Climax, and younger brother of Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to the OAS, a kinetic, foresighted businessman who dabbled successfully in fields as diverse as oil speculating and orchid growing (at one time he owned one of the world's largest orchid nurseries), but found his niche among rare metals, promoting new uses for radium in medicine, new processes for extracting vanadium (a steel strengthener) and new markets for molybdenum, a high-strength metal of the jet age; of leukemia; in Manhattan.

Died. Lord Brabazon of Tara, 80, pioneer British aviator and a Minister of Aircraft Production in Churchill's wartime government, a crusty curmudgeon who in 1909 managed to take off in a fragile cloth-and-wood contraption and fly it a mile, bounced in and out of Parliament until his 1941 appointment to boss Britain's rapidly expanding aircraft industry, a job he did well until he was ousted in early 1942 for impolitically suggesting that England should be happy that German Nazis and Russian Communists were killing each other off; following a heart attack; in Chertsey, England.

Died. Dr. James Franck, 81, German-Jewish physicist, winner with Gustav Hertz of a 1925 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the laws governing collisions between electrons and atoms; of a heart attack; in Gottingen, Germany. Forced out of his professorship at the University of Gottingen in 1933, Franck later came to the University of Chicago, headed a wartime team of scientists that perfected the method for reducing uranium oxide to metal, a major contribution to the Manhattan Project.

Died. Otto Vigelmovich Kuusinen, 83, oldest member of the Soviet Union's aging twelve-man Presidium; of cancer; in Moscow. A native Finn, Kuusinen fled to Moscow in 1921 when a Russian-model Bolshevik revolution was crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow in 1956, a seat at the very top a year later, and finally that ultimate accolade of Communism, a niche for his ashes in the Kremlin wall.

Died. Leonard Florsheim, 84, Chicago transportation tycoon, one of the founders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and a scion of the Florsheim shoe family who, with his friend John Hertz, founded the Yellow Cab Co., Chicago Motor Coach Co. (the hub of the Chicago Transit Authority's bus routes) and the Omnibus Corp., later to become the Hertz Corp.; after a long illness; in Chicago.

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