Born. To Hedy Lamarr, 32, Viennese-born film beauty, and Cinemactor John Loder, 49: their second child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: Anthony John. Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz.

Engaged. Robert Falkenburg, 21, rangy, seventh-ranking U.S. tennist, brother of Jinx; and Lourdes Marink-Veiga Machado, 19, bright-eyed Brazilian beauty; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheller Stone, 53, chief of the Italian Affairs section at Allied Force Headquarters in Italy, ex-head of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; by Louise Wardwell Stone; after twelve years, three children; in Reno.

Died. John Benjamin Powell, 60, veteran newsman, prewar editor & publisher of the China Weekly Review and managing director of the China Press; of a heart attack, just after making a speech warning the U.S. against a resurgent Asia; in Washington. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese threw Editor Powell into a heatless Shanghai cell, where he developed gangrene and beriberi, lost 70 of his 160 pounds, eventually lost parts of both feet.

Died. Helen Gregory MacGill, 76, Canada's first woman jurist (the Vancouver, B.C. juvenile court for 22 years); Cosmopolitan magazine-sponsored globetrotter of half a century ago, who lost out to a typhoon when she tried to beat Nellie Ely's 72-day around-the-world record; in Chicago.

Died. Max Maurey, 77, French playwright and founder of Paris' famed Grand-Guignol (see THEATER) ; in Neuilly, France.

Died. Elizabeth Jordan, 79, onetime editor (Harper's Bazaar), turn-of-the-century sobsister whose New York World stories on the Lizzie Borden hatchet-murder trial were the sensation of the day; in Manhattan. Close friend of Henry James, Mark Twain, she "discovered" Sinclair Lewis, bought his first novel (for Harper & Bros.), edited him with a heavy blue pencil.

Died. Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, 80, major in the Rough Riders, onetime board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, who was ousted by John D. Rockefeller Jr. after his acquittal of charges of contempt and perjury in the Teapot Dome investigation; in Miami Beach.

Died. Ben Webster, 82, longtime Shakespearean actor, onetime leading man to Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, husband of veteran stage & screen Actress Dame May Whitty, father of Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Los Angeles.

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