Born. To Lewis Hoad, 21, Australian Davis Cup star, and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's topflight women tennis players: their first child, a daughter; in Melbourne. Name: Jane.

Born. To Ann Blyth, 27, cinemactress (Kismet), and Dr. James McNulty, 37, obstetrician: their second child, first daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Maureen Ann. Weight: 7 Ibs. 3 oz.

Married. Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish of Fujiyama") Furuhashi, 27, Japan's onetime record-breaking long-distance swimmer, holder of the world's 1,500-meter mark (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949); and Keiko Okada, 21; in Tokyo.

Died. Major General (ret.) Frank Dow Merrill, 52, leader of World War II's jungle-fighting "Merrill's Marauders"; of a heart attack; in Fernandina Beach, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, 62, U.S.-born widow of great Tenor Enrico Caruso, author of Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; of cancer; in Baltimore.

Died. Homer ("The Musical Missionary") Rodeheaver, 75, trombone-playing musical director for 22 years for the late Evangelist Billy Sunday, composer of gospel songs (Then Jesus Came); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Winona Lake, Ind.

Died. George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 78, sixth Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain to the late King George VI, Governor General of South Africa, 1931-37, chairman of the board of governors of the BBC, 1927-30; in London.

Died. Charles Edwin Mitchell, 78, onetime top financier who lost an estimated fortune of $30 million in 1929, disclosed in testimony before the Senate Currency and Banking Committee in 1933 that he owed the U.S. Government $850,000 in back taxes; of a circulatory ailment; in Manhattan. Mitchell refused to declare himself bankrupt, as an investment banker (Blyth & Co.) made a startling financial comeback which enabled him to pay off his reported $12 million debts.

Died. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, 81, Portuguese neurologist, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949 as the first man to devise an operation for the treatment of mental disorders (the prefrontal lobotomy), Portuguese Foreign Minister from 1918-19; in Lisbon.

Died. Archer Milton Huntington, 85, multimillionaire founder, with his family, of 13 U.S. museums, including Newport News's Mariners' Museum, Manhattan's Hispanic Society, son of Collis P. H. Huntington, builder of the Southern Pacific railway; in Bethel, Conn.

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