Born. To Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 28, radio and screen singer; and Hyatt Robert Dehn, 35, building contractor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: David Martin Dehn. Weight: 9 Ibs.

Married. John Huston, 40, Hollywood (and U.S. Army) film writer-producer (The Maltese Falcon, Let There Be Light), son of Actor Walter Huston; and Cinemactress Evelyn Keyes, 26; both for the third time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Dr. Howard Hanson, 49, Pulitzer Prizewinning conductor-composer (Symphony No. 4, Opus 34, Merry Mount), director of the Eastman School of Music, longtime cymbal-dasher for U.S. composers; and Margaret Elizabeth Nelson, 31, Pittsburgh Junior Leaguer; both for the first time; at Chautauqua, N.Y.

Married. Prince Louis II, 76, ruler of the pocket principality of Monaco, whose most valuable import is tourist money gambled at Monte Carlo; and Ghyslaine Domanget, 46, onetime French actress; in Monte Carlo.

Died. James ("Jimmy") Maxton, 61, firebrand leader for 19 years of the tiny Independent Labor Party in Britain's House of Commons, variously known as "most popular M.P.," "the Wild Man from the Clyde" and "the Rebel without an Enemy," brilliant Socialist prophet and author (If I were Dictator); after long illness; in Largs, Scotland. Cadaverous, lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value at all, and it is a characteristic of the Scottish people to tend to deify the things they must put up with."

Died. Gertrude Stein, 72, grizzled matriarch of the stuttering sentence ("A rose is a rose is a rose") whose literary doubletalk was often as confusing as amusing, onetime medical student, connoisseur of modern art, author (Portraits and Prayers, Wars I Have Seen), playwright (Four Saints in Three Acts, Yes Is for a Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma of Dada." Her parting shot, on leaving the U.S. in 1935 (with her longtime secretary-companion, Alice B. Toklas): "I won't be sorry to come back when I do come back if I do come back." In France many a G.I. got to know Gertrude Stein, stirred anew her interest in the U.S., gave her the stuff for her last book, Brewsie and Willie (see BOOKS).

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