Born. To Feiho Ikeda, 26, crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, which was dusted with radioactive fallout (1954) after a U.S. H-bomb test in the Marshall Islands, and his wife Setsuko Ikeda, 23: a son, described as healthy and normal, the first child born to any of the 22 survivors (one crewman died). Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.
Born. To Debbie Reynolds, 24, teen-ageing cinemactress (The Catered Affair), and Eddie Fisher, 28, curly-headed jukebox nightingale (7 Believe): a daughter, their first child; in Burbank, Calif. Weight: 6 Ibs. 12 oz.
Born. To Luis Anastasio Somoza de Bayle, 33, President of Nicaragua since the assassination of his father. Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, last month, and Isabel Urcuyo de Somoza: a fifth son, sixth child; in Managua, Nicaragua. Name: Heraldo. Weight: 6 Ibs. 8 oz.
Born. To Enos Bradsher ("Country") Slaughter, 40, balding, longtime (1938-53) St. Louis Cardinals outfielder, who joined the New York Yankees last August, broke up the third World Series game with a home run, and Fifth Wife Helen Spiker Slaughter, 26: a daughter, their first child (his second); in Kansas City, Mo. Name: Gaye Arlene. Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz.
Married. Phil Silvers, 44, comic of stage (Top Banana, 1951-53) and TV (Sergeant Bilko); and Evelyn Patrick, 23, the sugar-coating on The $64,000 Question's commercials; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Haven, Conn.
Died. Lawrence Dale (Larry) Bell, 62, stocky, square-faced airplane builder, who started (1913) as a $12-a-week apprentice at the late Glenn L. Martin's plane factory, later worked with Aviation Pioneer Donald W. Douglas (now president of Douglas Aircraft Co.) when Douglas joined
Martin as chief engineer (1915); of a heart ailment, a month after he retired as president, became board chairman of Bell Aircraft Co.; in Buffalo. Larry Bell helped develop an early "bomber" before joining Martin (converted from a Martin exhibition plane, stocked with dynamite-filled gas pipes and sold to Pancho Villa), by 1935 had launched his own firm (estimated 1956 sales: $200 million). Planemaker Bell in 1944 produced the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the Airacomet, made helicopters, missiles and the famed X-1 and X-2 rocket planes, which have broken all speed, altitude records.
Died. Isham Jones, 62, sweet-swinging bandleader who wowed the sentimental '205 when he wrote I'll See You in My Dreams and It Had to Be You; of cancer; in Golden Beach, Fla.
Died. Owen Gould Davis, 82, pudgy, hornrimmed, onetime record-breaking Harvard dashman, who ground out more than 200 melodramas ("You may strike me, Harold Halverton, but there is a God that will protect a woman's honor") and serious plays, won the Pulitzer Prize (1923) with Icebound; after long illness; in Manhattan.