Born. To Navy Lieut. Joseph Willard Roosevelt, 27, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late Maj. Kermit, and Nancy Thayer Roosevelt, 25, Manhattan socialite: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Simon Willard. Weight: 7 Ibs., 10 oz.

Married. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr.,* 33, California playboy and sugar heir; and Kay Williams, 26, blonde Hollywood starlet; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Wickenburg, Ariz.

Divorced. Richard Arlen (real name: Richard Mattimore), 45, longtime Hollywood romantic lead, still a two-fisted hero in B pictures (Minesweeper); by Jobyna Ralston, 40, onetime Harold Lloyd leading lady and innocent-eyed silent cinemactress; after 18 years of marriage; one son; in Los Angeles. The grounds: desertion (for seven years).

Died. Vice Admiral John Sidney McCain, 61, peppery, wizened Commander of famed Fast Carrier Task Force 38; of a heart attack; in Coronado, Calif., a few hours after his return home from the Tokyo Bay surrender ceremonies. His last word on the Japs: "Listen, baby, they were just measuring us--just like you measure a man when you're going to hit him the next minute. They don't know they are licked yet. ... I don't like the look in their eyes."

Died. Orlando Franklin Weber, 66, longtime (1920-1934) autocratic president of whopping, $500,000,000 Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., which he and Eugene Meyer organized after World War I as a holding and operating company surpassing any European competitor; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Socialist labor leader, Tycoon Weber had such a fetish for secrecy that no firm member could appear in Who's Who or have his picture taken for publication. Not until the New York Stock Exchange threatened in 1933 to remove Allied's 2,400,000 shares from its lists did the corporation reveal its financial anatomy--and its amazing profit record--even to stockholders. Soon after, President Weber resigned.

Died. Princess Stephanie Clotilde Louise Hermine Marie Charlotte of Belgium, 81, elder daughter of the late King Leopold II, widow of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf, who shot his mistress (Baroness Maria Vetsera), then himself, in the famed Mayerling scandal of 1889; in Hungary (according to the Brussels radio). The Princess married Hungarian Count Lonyay in 1900.

* Not to be confused with his second cousin, Sportsman (speedboating, horse racing) Adolph B. Spreckels, whose sister, Geraldine, was the other Adolph's third wife.

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