Born. To Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, quicksilvery ballerina and musicomedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights) and Roland Petit, 31, founder-director of the French Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred: their first child, a daughter; in Paris.
Born. To Jan Sterling (real name: Jane Sterling Adriance), 32, tough-gal-typed blonde cinemactress (Women's Prison), and Paul Douglas, 48, cinemactor (Green Fire): their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Adams. Weight: 7 lbs. 12 oz.
Married. James Michener, 48, novelist (The Bridges of Toko-ri), connoisseur of things Japanese (The Floating World), 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner for Tales of the South Pacific; and Colorado-born Nisei Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, 35, assistant editor of the American Library Association Bulletin; he for the third time, she for the first; in Chicago.
Died. John Hodiak (real name: John Pagorzelliec), 41, actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial) and screen (Trial, Battleground), and onetime husband of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; of a coronary thrombosis while shaving in his parents' home as he prepared to leave for 20th Century-Fox studios to complete work on his 32nd movie, Threshold of Space, the story of Space Surgeon John Paul Stapp, whom he was playing; in Tarzana, Calif.
Died. Carlos Dávila, 68, Provisional President of Chile in 1932, Ambassador to the U.S. 1927-31, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States since 1954, noted South American journalist and editor; of cancer; in Washington.
Died. José Ortega y Gasset, 73, famed Spanish philosopher (The Revolt of the Masses), essayist and journalist; of cancer; in Madrid (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Bernard Grasset, 74, onetime topflight French book publisher (Giraudoux, Maurois, Mauriac) who was paid by Marcel Proust to print Swann's Way in 1913, after Proust had looked in vain for a publisher; after long illness; in Paris. Convicted in 1948 of collaboration with the Nazis, Grasset was fined 10,000 francs, sentenced to "national degradation for life."
Died. George A. Ball, 92, financier, philanthropist, last of five brothers, who built one of the great U.S. fortunes on the Mason jar and the purchase in 1935 of controlling stock in the Van Sweringen railroad empire (23,000 miles, including the Chesapeake & Ohio and Missouri Pacific) for "about the price of two first-class locomotives," which he sold for $6,375,000 in 1937 to a group headed by the New York Central's Robert Young; in Muncie, Ind.