Born. To Martha Wright, 32, pert CBS singer and disk jockey, holder of the record number of Broadway performances (1,047) as Nurse Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, and Manhattan Restaurant Owner Mike Manuche, 37: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Patrick Gregory. Weight: 8 Ibs. 3 oz.
Married. Kim Stanley (real name: Patricia Kimberly Reid), 33, star of Broadway's Bus Stop, and of Hollywood's The Goddess, whose training at the Actors' Studio made her the standard Brando of U.S. actresses; and TV Actor Alfred Ryder, 39; she for the third time, he for the first; in The Bronx.
Married. Dan A. Kimball, 62, president of California's Aerojet-General Corp., onetime (1951-53) Secretary of the Navy; and Doris Fleeson, 57, Fair-Dealing political columnist for United Feature Syndicate; both for the second time; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Sir John Huggins, 66, retired British Governor in Chief of Jamaica (1943-51), who bolted to Italy in June with his wife's 45-year-old dressmaker; by blonde, wholesome Lady Huggins, who knew what hit her ("My husband is a victim of the 30-year itch"); after 29 years of marriage, three children; by decree nisi, in Southampton, England.
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany.
Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with the Schnozz's deathless evaluation of Lana Turner: "Take away her sweater and whatta you got?"
Died. Percy Alfred Scholes, 81, British music critic and historian, witty, unorthodox, occasionally prissy lexicographer, who wrote the entire 1,195-page Oxford Companion to Music; in Switzerland. Most novels are duller than Dr. Scholes's reference book, in which harmony is "the clothing of melody" and "form is one of the composer's chief means of averting the boredom of his audience."