Born. To Anna Eleanor Boettiger Seagraves, 22, who, as "Sistie" Dall, romped on the White House lawn in the '303 with Grandfather Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Van H. Seagraves, 26, economist for the Department of the Interior: their first child (and first great-grandchild for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt), a son; in Portland, Ore. Name: Nicholas Delano. Weight: 9 Ibs. 1 oz.

Born. To Esther Williams, 27, hazel-eyed cinemermaid (Bathing Beatify, Neptune's Daughter), and second husband Ben Gage, 32, lanky (6 ft. 5 in.) radio actor-announcer: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Benjamin Stanton. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 1/2 oz.

Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy.

Married. John Dos Passes, 53, best-selling naturalistic novelist (Three Soldiers, U.S.A.); and Elizabeth Hamlin Holdridge, fortyish, widow of Author-Explorer Desmond Holdridge; each for the second time (his first wife was killed two years ago in an automobile accident in which Dos Passos lost an eye); in Towson, Md.

Divorced. Marriner Stoddard Eccles, 58, onetime Utah banker and industrialist, veteran New Dealer, since 1934 member of the Federal Reserve Board (and chairman from 1936 until President Truman demoted him last February); by May Campbell Eccles, 56, whom he met in Scotland during his Mormon missionary days; after 36 years of marriage, three children; in Ogden, Utah.

Died. Professor Hyman H. Goldsmith, 42, topflight atomic physicist, wartime staffer at Chicago's Manhattan Project (which developed the world's first atomic pile), since 1947 in charge of the Brookhaven (Upton, N.Y.) National Laboratory's information and publication division; by accidental drowning; near Windham, Vt.

Died. Mrs. Mathilde Townsend Welles, 64, second wife of onetime (1937-43) Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; of peritonitis; in Lausanne, Switzerland, where they were resting after his near escape from death in Maryland last December (he was found half-frozen and unconscious after collapsing while out for a walk).

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