Born. To William Clay Ford, 32, Ford Motor Co. vice president, grandson of the founder, and Martha Firestone Ford, 31, granddaughter of Tiremaker Harvey Firestone: a first son, third child; in Detroit. Name: William Clay Jr. Weight: 7 lbs. 7 oz.

Married. Shelley Winters, 34, tough blonde actress of stage (A Hatful of Rain) and screen (A Place in the Sun); and Anthony Franciosa, 28, tantrum-tossing Broadway actor (A Hatful of Rain); she for the third time, he for the second; in Carson City, Nev.

Died. Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 48, Republican Senator from Wisconsin since 1947; of acute hepatic failure; in the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. 53, Polish composer who came to the U.S. in 1945 as consular attache in New York City, defected from his country's Communist regime in 1948; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Belle Baker (real name: Bella Becker), 62, black-eyed vaudeville singer with a powerful "early-morning" husky voice, who meteored from poverty to fame with richly plaintive versions of Eli Eli and My Yiddishe Momme, star (1926) of Flo Ziegfeld's production of Betsy, by Rodgers and Hart; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. John Jay Hopkins, 63, board chairman of General Dynamics Corp.; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. (see BUSINESS).

Died. James Monroe Mathes, 68, pioneer (1923) radio advertiser (National Carbon Co.'s Eveready Hour) who sparked the first network-sponsored, sound-effects, man-in-the-street program, in 1933 launched his own agency (J. M. Mathes, Inc.); of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn.

Died. Mateel Howe Farnham, 73, novelist (Marsh Fire, Wild Beauty, Lost Laughter, The Tollivers) and prolific short-story writer for women's magazines; in Norwalk, Conn. Daughter of the late Author-Editor-Philosopher Edgar Watson (Ed) Howe, Author Farnham won a $10,000 prize for her first novel, Rebellion (1927), describing a girl's breakaway from a tyrannical father, once (1934) wrote TIME: "I did write a novel about a rebellious daughter and an old-fashioned father, but not about this daughter or my own father."

Died. Grant Mitchell, 82, longtime (since 1902) character actor of stage (A Tailor-Made Man, Tide Rising) and screen (Hell's Kitchen, Cinderella Jones); in Hollywood.

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