Born. To Ilse Koehler Koch, 41, convicted "Bitch of Buchenwald" who collected lampshades made of tattooed human skin, and (putatively) one Fritz Schaefer, a fellow war criminal who tunneled into her cell last winter: a male bastard; in Landsberg (Germany) City Hospital, under guard. Name: Uwe Koehler. Weight: 7 lbs.

Married. Maria Laura Arosemena, 29, daughter of Ecuador's Banker-President Carlos Julio Arosemena; to Galo Andrade, 31, New Orleans importer, ex-Ecuadorian Navy lieutenant; in Houston.

Married. Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 38, pianist-bandleader; and Maria Teresa ("Chiquita") Paske-Smith Winn, 34, daughter of a onetime British Minister to Colombia; both for the second time; at the Manhattan home of Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, who gave the bride away.

Married. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, 55, onetime Republican National Committee chairman (1936-40); and Rosamond Kittle Jackson, 39; he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia.

Died. Earl Snell, 52, governor of Oregon; in a hunting-trip plane crash; on a plateau in southern Oregon. Killed in the same crash: State Senate President Marshall Cornett, 49, next in line of succession for the governorship; Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr., 41, who had thought of running for governor in 1951, after the expiration of Snell's term.

Died. Samuel Crowther, 67, veteran journalist, pamphleteer, literary collaborator (My Life and Work, Today and Tomorrow, Edison As I Know Him, all with Henry Ford; Men and Rubber, with Harvey Firestone); after long illness; in Boston.

Died. The Most Rev. John Joseph Cantwell, 72, first Archbishop of Los Angeles (the archbishopric was created in 1936); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. Brawny, Irish-born Cantwell was credited with being the founding father of the potent Legion of Decency.

Died. Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, 83, widow of Grover Cleveland, wife of Professor Thomas Jex Preston Jr., retired Princeton archeology professor; in Baltimore. The youngest and one of the prettiest First Ladies (she was 22 when she married the President), she was the only woman ever married to a President in the White House. As New York's governor, and later as President, Cleveland showered her with roses while she was a Wells College student, married her (after months of dewy speculation by the nation's press) a year after her graduation.

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