Born. To Burt Lancaster, 40, cine-macrobat (Apache), and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 36: their fifth child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Sighle Ann. Weight: 8 Ibs. 5 oz.
Born. To Van Heflin, 43, blond cinema he-man (Shane), and Frances Neal Heflin, 32: their third child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tracy Neal. Weight: 6 Ibs. 4 oz.
Marriage Revealed. Viveca Lindfors. 33, Swedish-born Hollywood cinemactress (The Raiders); and George Tabori, 40, somber-themed Broadway playwright (Flight into Egypt); she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Malibu Beach. Calif.. July 4.
Died. Mrs. Helen Eakin Eisenhower. 49, wife of Pennsylvania State University President Milton S. Eisenhower, sister-in-law of Dwight D. Eisenhower; of complications following pneumonia; in State College, Pa.
Died. Frank Hague Eggers. 53, onetime (1947-49) mayor of raucous Jersey City; of a stroke; in Jersey City. Tenderly nursed in politics by his uncle, Boss ("I am the law") Hague, Eggers cut his political teeth on city and county judgeships, served four years as Hague's personal secretary, was appointed (and later elected) to the city commission, then, when Hague stepped aside in 1947, to the mayoralty. In 1949, with Eggers in charge, the Hague machine collapsed at the polls, stayed collapsed despite Eggers' comeback attempt last year.
Died. Gabriel Pascal, 60, cinemadapter of the plays of George Bernard Shaw; after long illness; in Manhattan. Penniless in 1935 when he crumbled Shaw's notorious resistance to movie versions, stormy,
Hungarian-born Perfectionist Pascal rose to fame and fortune with Pygmalion (1938). went on to make a career of producing G.B.S. on the screen (Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion), won the Irish master's rare rating of "genius."
Died. Dr. Vincas Kreve-Mickevicius, 71, short-time (June-August, 1940) Foreign Minister of Lithuania; of a heart ailment; in Marple, Pa. Ousted from his post for protesting Russia's seizure of power in Lithuania, Dr. Kreve-Mickevicius fled in 1944, taught Russian at the University of Pennsylvania from 1947 until his retirement last year.
Died. John B. (for Blanks) Campbell, 77, racing secretary of New York tracks and nationally famed handicapper; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Mississippi River steamboat captain, he began handicapping in 1914, worked at virtually every track in the country before settling down in 1935 to placing weights for the 1,500 races a year at New York's four tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont, Jamaica, Saratoga). Blunt, owlish Louisianian Campbell remained blandly unperturbed by owners' and trainers' protests over his weight assignments, calmly pursued the handicapper's dream, i.e., a race so perfectly handicapped that all entries would finish in a dead heat. He came closer to perfection than any racing secretary in the U.S.; in 1944 got a triple dead heat in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct.
Died. Mrs. Idabelle Smith Firestone, 79, widow of Rubber Tycoon Harvey S. Firestone Sr., sometime composer (/f / Could Tell You, In My Garden, opening and closing themes on radio-TV's venerable Voice of Firestone); after long illness; in Akron.