Born. To Johnny Cash, 38, deep-voiced king of country-and-western music, and June Carter, 40, a member of the singing Carter Family: their first child, a son; in Nashville, Tenn.

Married. Luther Hodges, 71, former Governor of North Carolina (1954-60) and Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations (1961-65); and Louise Finlayson, 48, his attractive brunette secretary; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Paul Christman, 51, former college All-America and professional football great who became one of TV's most popular sports commentators; of a heart attack; in Lake Forest, Ill. As the University of Missouri's star tailback from 1938 to 1940, Christman gained a record 4,133 yds.; in 1947 he quarterbacked the then Chicago Cardinals to their last National Football League championship. Beginning in 1958, he brought terse, knowledgeable sports analysis to all three major networks (most recently CBS). His formula for success: "Never insult the intelligence of your viewer. If you have nothing to say, shut up."

Died. William Hopper, 54, actor son of the late Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, who after many years of playing bit parts in films like Footloose Heiress and Torchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde, and eight years as a car salesman, became a star of sorts as Paul Drake, Perry Mason's detective friend in the famed TV series; of a stroke; in Palm Springs, Calif.

Died. Frederick E. Woltman, 64, veteran Scripps-Howard newspaper reporter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. In 1931, Woltman's reporting on a real estate mortgage-bond racket in New York City won a Pulitzer for the New York World-Telegram, but he is best remembered for his Pulitzer prizewinning series in 1946 uncovering Communist infiltration into unions, during which he exposed Gerhart Eisler as the Kremlin's principal agent in the U.S.

Died. Daniel Comstock, 86, M.l.T. physicist who helped Engineer Herbert Kalmus develop the Technicolor process for making color movies; in Concord, Mass. Though they began work in 1914, it took Comstock and Kalmus more than six years to develop their complex color process; even then, their first commercial film, a 1922 feature starring Anna May Wong, was at best blurry and unpromising. It was not until 1932, seven years after Comstock had left the partnership to develop a color process for still photography, that Technicolor came into its own as a commercial success.

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