Born. To Jimmie Fidler, 51, the Hollywood commentator with the undertaker's voice, and his fourth wife, Adeline Fidler, 29: their first child, a daughter. Name: Jaime. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.

Divorced. Mickey Rooney, 31, cinemactor; by his third wife, Martha Vickers, 26, supporting player (The Big Sleep); after two years of marriage, one son; in Hollywood. "I don't think I saw him more than one or two nights a week," Miss Vickers told the judge. "Then he would just walk back into the house like nothing had happened, and ask for his dinner."

Died. Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway, 55, second of Novelist Ernest Hemingway's four wives (1927-40); after long illness; in Los Angeles. Married to Hemingway when he emerged into prominence, she went on the safari which he recorded in Green Hills of Africa, in which she was known as P.O.M. (Poor Old Mom).

Died. Bradley Barker, 68, who made a career out of his hobby of imitating animal sounds; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The animal voice of many a radio program (e.g., the wolf call on Renfrew of the Mounted), he scored his first and greatest successes by providing the screen roar for MGM's Leo the Lion and making Pathe's newsreel rooster crow.

Died. Lane Bryant Malsin, 72, founder of a $5O-million-a-year women's wear business catering to "stylish stouts"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born Lena Himmelstein in Lithuania, she came to the U.S. at 16, worked as a sweatshop seamstress for four years. When she was widowed at 21, she pawned her earrings to open a one-room sewing shop to support a baby son, began to make money with her first maternity dress. In partnership with her second husband, Albert Malsin, and after his death with her son, Lane Bryant pioneered in styling dresses for women whose figures had gotten out of hand, expanded into a chain of 25 retail stores (including a ten-story one on Fifth Avenue) and one of the nation's biggest mail-order houses. "It's a miracle," she once said of her rise from a $1-a-week seamstress, "and yet I suppose it's a typical American success story, too."

Died. Samuel Twyman Sample, 82, who won national attention for his troubles with the draft in three U.S. wars; of a heart attack; in Tampa, Fla. Rejected as underweight in the Spanish-American War, and as too old for World War I, this year he was three times ordered by the Tampa draft board to report for induction as a draft delinquent (TIME, July 9).

Died. Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer, 84, genteel agitator for women's rights, chief founder (in 1889) of Manhattan's Barnard College, first women's college in the city; in Manhattan.

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