Born. To Marguerite Piazza, thirtyish, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano turned TV songstress, and her third husband, William James Condon, 43, Memphis snuff-company executive: their first child (her third), a daughter. Name: Shirley. Weight: 6 Ibs. 3 oz.

Divorced. Billy Rose, 54, bantam Manhattan showman (The Immoralist); by his second wife and onetime aquastar, Eleanor Holm Rose, 40; after 14 years of marriage, two of court battles, no children ; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 71, veteran Army airman who organized and led the first successful round-the-world flight (1924) only to leave the four-plane expedition when his own plane crashed in Alaska; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Chief of Hawaii's Army air units when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (1941), he saw more than a fourth of his 231 aircraft destroyed, was relieved ten days later (with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Lieut. General Walter C. Short) and sent back to the U.S. Neither blamed nor exonerated in ensuing investigations, he held training commands until his retirement in 1944.

Died. Sybella Margaretha Krige Smuts, 83, widow of South Africa's famed soldier-statesman, Jan Christian Smuts (who died in 1950); of heart attack; near Pretoria, South Africa.

Died. The Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, 93, longtime "Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's Cathedral in London (1911-34); in Wallingford, England (see RELIGION).

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