Born. To Dominic Elwes, 28, free-spending man-about-London, son of Royal Portrait Painter Simon Elwes; and Shipping Heiress Tessa Kennedy, 21, who traveled 7,000 miles about the Western Hemisphere with Dominic to escape an English court order barring their marriage, married him in Cuba, returned to London where she saw him off to jail to serve 14 days for contempt of court: a son; in London. Name: Cassian Gary.

Married. Sue Simone Ingersoll, 21, New Mexico's peppery redheaded entry for the Miss Universe contest who defied Albuquerque Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne's ban on Roman Catholics' entering bathing-suit contests, but finally withdrew; and Sam Francis Jr., 23, pre-law student at the University of New Mexico; in a civil ceremony, in Juarez, Mexico.

Married. Jack Westland, 54, Republican Congressman from Washington, who interrupted his 1952 campaign to win the National Amateur Golf Championship after trying seven times before; and Helen M. Geis, 42, assistant to new Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington.

Died. John Gamble Kirkwood, 52, Chemistry Department chairman at Yale University, who developed a new method of separating blood proteins, at 28 won the American Chemical Society's Langmuir award in pure chemistry; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Pelham D. Glassford, 76, leathery Washington police chief when the 1932 Bonus Army marched on the Capitol; in Laguna Beach, Calif. A combat general in World War I, Glassford faced the sternest test of his career when 11,000 ragged, jobless veterans descended on Washington to demand bonuses not due them until 1945. He controlled them with tact and courage while Congress marked time, dug $773 out of his own pocket to buy them food.

Died. Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, 76, World War II hero (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Jean Hugard, 86, the magician who first performed the risky bullet-catching act that later cost twelve imitators their lives, founded (1943) Hugard's Magic Monthly, a magician's trade magazine, which he continued to publish after going blind seven years ago; in Brooklyn.

Died. Mrs. William Sydney Porter, 91, widow of O. Henry, and herself a short story writer (the Bijie series), who drew on the dialect of the North Carolina mountains, where at 13 she first met O. Henry and where she returned at his death in 1910 after only three years of marriage; in Weaverville, N.C.

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