Born. To Elizabeth Taylor, 20, cinemactress (National Velvet, Ivanhoe), and Michael Wilding, 40, British cinemactor (An Ideal Husband): their first child, a son, by Caesarean section; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Michael Howard. Weight: 7 Ibs. 3 oz.

Born. To Andrea ("Andy") Mead Lawrence, 20, who started taking professional lessons at the age of six to become the world's fastest woman skier, winner of two gold medals (for the giant slalom and two-heat slalom) at 1952's winter Olympics, and Skier David Lawrence, 22, member of the U.S. men's Olympic team last year and 1949 U.S. giant slalom champion: their first child, a son; in Rutland, Vt. Weight: 8 Ibs. 9 1/2 oz.

Married. Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, 29, rangy, redheaded heir to the eighth Duke of Buccleuch (pronounced "buck-cloo"), long regarded as the front runner for Princess Margaret's hand; and Jane Mc-Neill, 22, ash-blonde, China-schooled fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister practicing in Hong Kong. Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret traveled by special train from Sandringham to join the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and 1,600 other royal guests, socialites and privileged laborers and tenants of the Buccleuch estates (six ancestral homes, 500,000 acres) to watch the coronation year's flossiest society wedding in Edinburgh's ancient St. Giles Cathedral.

Died. Thomas Sugrue, 45, journalist and author (There Is a River, Starling of the White House), who was stricken by a rare form of arthritis in 1937, spent the rest of his life in the painful confines of a wheelchair; of complications following a bone operation; in Manhattan. His controversial 1952 book, A Catholic Speaks His Mind, was a biting criticism of U.S. Catholicism ("booming, aggressive, materialistic, socially ambitious, and inclined to use its membership as a paranoid pressure group").

Died. Osa Leighty Johnson, 58, explorer, author (/ Married Adventure), famed in the '203 and '303 for her expeditions to Africa, Australia, Borneo and the South Seas with first husband Martin Johnson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Johnsons traveled a million miles together in 27 years, flew their own amphibian (Osa's Ark), produced six books and 13 movies (a crack shot, she would drop attacking lions and rhinos at his feet as he stood fast, grinding the camera). After Johnson's death in a commercial-plane crash in 1937. Osa led a six-month safari into Africa, married and divorced her booking manager, and was getting ready for a new African safari when death came.

Died. Otto Schnering, 61, founder and president of the Curtiss Candy Co., a pioneer in nickel candy bars, notably Baby Ruth (24 billion bars in 35 years); of a heart attack; in Gary, Ill.

Died. Albert V. Moore, 72, cofounder and president of Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc., one of the world's largest passenger-cargo fleets (37 ships); of a heart ailment; in Queens, N.Y.

Died. Dr. Charles E. Merriam, 78, longtime (1900-40) professor of political science at the University of Chicago; of a cerebral-hemorrhage; in Rockville, Md. As an educator looking for practical experience, he twice served as a Chicago alderman and ran a losing campaign in 1911 for mayor of Chicago on the Republican ticket (his campaign manager: Old Curmudgeon Harold Ickes).

Died. Mrs. Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, eightyish, unchallenged queen of U.S. society for more than a quarter of a century; of pneumonia; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

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