Born. To Mickey Rooney, 29, perennial cinemadolescent and Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep), 25; their first child, Rooney 's third (two boys by an earlier marriage), a son. Name: Ted Michael. Weight: 7 lbs. 3 oz.
Married. Princess Fatmeh of Iran, 21, U.S. educated (Converse College, S.C.) daughter of the late Shah Mohamed Riza Pahlevi, youngest sister of the ruling Shah of Iran; and Vincent Lee Hillyer, 24, son of a Los Banos, Calif, doctor; in Civitavecchia, Italy. Although Hillyer offered to become an Iranian citizen and a Moslem, the Shah inexorably divested Fatmeh of all her royal privileges for marrying without his consent.
Married. Julia Ruth Flanders, 33, table-tennis star (once a contender for the world's championship), adopted daughter of baseball's late great George Herman ("Babe") Ruth; and Willis Grant Meloon Jr., 29, an Episcopalian divinity student; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Audie Murphy, 25, most decorated World War II hero turned cinemactor (Bad Boy) and author (To Hell and Back); by Wanda Hendrix, 21, cinemactress (Ride the Pink Horse); after one stormy year of marriage; in Los Angeles.
Died. Frances Seymour Brokaw Fonda, 42, well-to-do estranged wife of the stage & screen's Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts); by her own hand; in Beacon, N.Y.
Died. Andrew Ponzi, 46, flashy wizard of the pool tables, three-time world pocket billiard champion (1935, '40, '43); of a heart ailment; in Philadelphia. Born Andrew D'Alessandro, he earned the lasting nickname "Ponzi" after "Get Rich Quick" Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler, by nervily taking all challenges, habitually winning his bets.
Died. Marshal Fezvi Cakmak, 74, Turkish defender of the Dardanelles in World War I, hero of the war of liberation that overthrew Sultan Mohamed VI ; after long illness; in Istanbul. The only Turkish general besides Kemal Atatürk honored with marshal's rank, Cakmak served as army chief of staff for 20 years (1924-44).
Died. Bainbridge Colby, 80, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State from 1920 to 1921; after a ten-day illness; in Bemus Point, N.Y. A longtime foe of Communism, Colby wrote the note refusing U.S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. in 1920 ("It is not possible for the . . . United States to recognize the present rulers of Russia as a government with which the relations common to friendly governments can be maintained."), stood by his opinion to the end.