Born. To Shelagh Rank Packard, 24, daughter of British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, and Frederick Packard, 28, film producer; a daughter, their first child, first Rank grandchild; in Los Angeles. Name: Susan Mary. Weight: 8 lb. 3 oz.

Married. Maria do Carmo da Cunha (Carmen Miranda), 33, turbaned Brazilian cinema songstress; and David Sebastian, 38, film producer; both for the first time; in Los Angeles.

Married. Norman Corwin, 36, prize-winning radio scripter; and Actress Katherine Locke, thirtyish; she for the second time, he for the first; in Elkton, Md.

Died. Abbot Tai Hsu, 57, head of the China Buddhist Association, president of the International Buddhist Institute, friend of Methodist Chiang Kaishek; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shanghai.

Died. Sir John Watson Gibson, 61, famed engineer who tourniqueted the Blue Nile with the Sennar Dam, climaxed his career with the breakwaters for the two Mulberry Harbors--the artificial ports that made the Normandy invasion easier; of lung trouble; in London. The Mulberry Harbors were started across the Channel on Dday; by D-plus-100 they had received more than two million troops, 500,000 vehicles, 17 million tons of materiel and supplies.

Died. William Starling Burgess, 68, famed naval architect, designer of three successful America's Cup defenders (Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise), pioneer airman and aircraft designer (winner of the prized Collier Trophy in 1915 for developing a self-stabilizing airplane); of a heart ailment; in Hoboken, N. J.

Died. The Right Rev. James De Wolf Perry, 75, onetime (1930-37) Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America,* for 35 years the Bishop of Rhode Island; of a heart ailment; in Summerville, S.C.

Died. Prince Domenico Napoleone Orsini, 78, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne, highest honorary lay office in the Vatican court, head of one of Rome's top-ranking families; in Rome--twelve days after the death of the head of the Orsinis' historic rivals, Prince Marcantonio Colonna (TIME, March 24).

Died. Captain Alden G. Howell, 106, who rode to war 86 years ago, saw Stonewall Jackson shot, lived to be the last surviving Confederate officer, oldest Mason in the U.S.; in Los Angeles.

*U.S. analogue to England's Archbishop of Canterbury, and sixth-ranking prelate of the Anglican Communion (after the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh and Wales, the Primus of Scotland).

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