Born. To Ida Lupino, 35, British-born cinemactress, and third husband Howard Duff, 34, actor (radio's "Sam Spade"): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Bridget. Weight: 4 Ibs. 3 oz.
Married. Marguerite ("Maggie") Higgins Moore, 31, Pulitzer Prizewinning correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, author (War in Korea) and lecturer; and Major General William E. Hall, 44, Fourth Air Force commander; both for the second time; in Reno, Nev. Correspondent Higgins, who met husky General Hall in Berlin during the Soviet blockade, once said: "I will marry only when I find a man as exciting as war."
Died. Georgina Campbell Manville, 33, estranged eighth wife of asbestos-protected Playboy Tommy Manville; in an automobile collision; in Greenburgh, N.Y. An ex-columnist for Manhattan's weekly Hobo News, British-born Georgina married and began spatting with Millionaire Manville in December 1945, was jailed on their first wedding anniversary when he charged her with disorderly conduct, separated from him in February 1951 when he gave her "$1,000 a month to stay away from me." But she vowed never to divorce him. After marriage No. 7 (which lasted 7 hrs. 45 min.), Manville predicted hopefully of No. 8: "This is the last one. This girl has more talent than the others," although a minute later he could not spell Georgina's name for reporters. When told about the first of his marriages to end in death, Manville remarked: "Naturally it's a shock. I haven't gotten over it yet—but I will."
Died. Monsignor Ludwig Kaas, 70, secretary to the Sacred Congregation in charge of the maintenance of St. Peter's Basilica, spare-time archeologist, onetime (1925-33) Catholic Center Party chairman in Germany's pre-Hitler Reichstag; of a heart attack; in Rome. Monsignor Kaas abandoned politics and fled Germany after Hitler's rise to power, entered the Vatican service in 1934. In December 1951, after twelve years of directing secret excavations in the Vatican Grottoes, he presented "scientifically undoubtable" proof which led Pope Pius XII to announce the discovery of St. Peter's tomb.
Died. Gertrude, Countess of Dudley, 73, known as Gertie Millar, the Gaiety Girl, by the stage-door Johnnies of Britain's Edwardian era; in Chiddingfold, England. A millworker's daughter, who made her stage debut at 13, wasp-waisted Gertie married William Humble Ward, second Earl of Dudley, in 1924.
Died. Paul Chenery Patterson, 73, president of the A. S. Abell publishing company and thus boss for 31 years (until 1951) of the Baltimore Sunpapers (the Sun, the Evening Sun, the Sunday Sun), after long illness; in Baltimore.