Born. To Gamble Benedict Porumbeanu, 20, runaway Manhattan "heiress," and Andrei Porumbeanu, 36, unemployed Rumanian-born charmer: their first child, a son; in Montclair, N.J.
Married. Jesse Edward ("Budge") Patty, 37, expatriate, happy-go-lucky party boy of amateur tennis (he worked occasionally as a travel agent and movie bit player), winner of the 1950 Wimbledon title; and Maria Marcina Sfezzo, 29, ash-blonde daughter of a Brazilian engineering magnate; both for the first time; in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Marriage Revealed. Richard J. Reynolds, 55, playboy heir to a $25 million tobacco (Camel cigarettes) fortune, onetime mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C., and current lord of Sapelo Island, a private domain off Georgia, who spent $10.1 million shedding his other wives; and Anne-marie Schmitt, 31, a pretty Ph.D. from Germany; he for the fourth time, she for the first; aboard a cruise ship in the South China Sea, March 15.
Divorced. By Suzy Parker, 28, angular, red-haired cinemactress and fashion model: Pierre de la Salle, 33, French journalist-playboy; after six years of marriage, one child; in Paris; on grounds of incompatibility. Said Suzy before the couple separated last year: "I've been told I can't cook, I can't sew, and I'm not fit to be a wife . . . It's O.K.; I'm playing along with the game, and when the right moment comes I'll let him have it right between the eyes."
Died. Major Robert S. Fitzgerald, 38, leader of the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's stunt-flying team; in a jet crash; not during an acrobatic maneuver but as he flew behind his teammates explaining their routines to a passenger, Captain George A. Nial, 31, who also was killed; at Thunderbird Lake, Nev., a dry lake named for the team.
Died. Horace Rowan Gaither Jr., 51, lawyer and investment banker who served variously as assistant director of M.I.T.'s wartime Radiation Laboratory, board chairman of the prestigious Rand Corp. and president of the Ford Foundation, a powerful but little known administrator until he took center stage in 1957 with ' his controversial, still secret "Gaither Report," said to warn of perilous deficiencies in U.S. defenses; of lung cancer; in Boston.
Died. Marian Jordan, 62, who played the scolding but sympathetic Molly to husband Jim Jordan's boastful, bumbling Fibber on NBC Radio's Fibber McGee and Molly for nearly 20 years; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Marian and Jim Jordan were small-time vaudevilleans from Peoria, III., before they hit the big time at 79 Wistful Vista, radio home of the McGees, wowing audiences of up to 20 million with Fibber's cluttered closet and Molly's standard, " 'Tain't funny, McGee."
Died. Wallingford Riegger, 75, versatile composer whose music, ranging from the romantic (La Belle Dame Sans Merci) to the atonal (Third Symphony), won prizes and international acclaim, and whose arrangements, under various pseudonyms, of everything from sacred music to Shortnin' Bread earned him a living; of head injuries after he tripped over a dog's leash; in Manhattan.