Born. To William McCormick Blair Jr., 45, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and a former law partner of Adlai Stevenson, and Catherine ("Deeda") Gerlach Blair, 30, stately Chicago socialite: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen.

Married. Marie ("The Body") McDonald, 38, sometime Hollywood actress, whose mysterious, never-solved "kidnaping" in 1957 raised eyebrows along with headlines when, after staying lost for 24 hours, she turned up wandering along a highway 150 miles from her home with a tale of being abducted, raped, and tossed into the California desert night; and Edward P. Callahan, 41, a Los Angeles lawyer and banker; she for the sixth time, he for the first; in Las Vegas.

Died. Whiting W. Willauer, 55, a hard-muscled Princeton fullback ('28) turned FBI lawyer, World War II China hand and troubleshooting U.S. diplomat in Central America; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass. Whitey Willauer ran the quasi-military China Defense Supplies Inc., feeding fuel and arms to General Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers," stayed on after the war to help Chennault organize and run Nationalist China's Civil Air Transport Service, "the most shot at civilian airline in history." Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, he helped quarterback the 1954 revolution that overthrew the pro-Communist regime of Jacobo Arbenz in neighboring Guatemala.

Died. Elizabeth Ann ("Ma") Duncan. 58, the grey-haired California matron who in 1958 grew so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse married to her son Frank that she paid $335 to have the woman murdered; of asphyxiation (cyanide); in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. Her 33-year-old son, an owl-eyed Santa Barbara lawyer, fought her case through a lurid trial during which she admitted that she had once been madam of a brothel and had married eleven times. "She was," said Frank, "the best mother a boy ever had."

Died. Edward Britt ("Ted") Husing, 60, radio voice of U.S. sports for two decades, whose golden tones and rapidfire 400 words-per-minute delivery kept two generations of football, boxing, track and golf fans with their ears to the loudspeaker; after a long illness; in Pasadena. A born and forever-after confirmed New Yorker, Husing tried various jobs, from carnival barker to seaplane pilot, before getting his first chance on radio in 1924, fibbing that he had a Harvard degree, and proving that he could "talk longer and louder" than any of the 600 other applicants for a WJZ announcer's job. In a grand era of such well-remembered voices as Graham McNamee and Clem McCarthy, Husing delighted millions with his coverage, working out phrases ("naked reverse," "a whole host of tacklers") to describe the action for his listeners. At 44, Husing tired of the whirl, decided. "Why shouldn't I make a quarter million dollars a year?" and for a decade was one of radio's highest paid disk jockeys until he suffered a brain tumor in 1954, and, as a friend said, "just seemed to fade away."

Died. Josephine Bay Paul, 61, president of A.M. Kidder & Co.. New York's prominent brokerage house, an analytically minded career woman who decided at the death of her first husband, Charles Ulrick Bay, onetime Ambassador to Norway and president of Kidder & Co., that she "couldn't sit back and cut coupons,'' started taking over his business ventures, succeeded him as a director of the American Export Lines and a year later became the first woman president of a Wall Street firm; of leukemia; in Manhattan.

Died. Ida Cantor, 70, wife of popeyed Comedian Eddie Cantor, his sweetheart from New York's Lower East Side, for whom he belted out the song "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider," for half a century; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills.

Died. Florence Lucius Davidson, 75, widow of bush-bearded Sculptor,Jo Davidson (TIME cover, Sept. 9, 1946), herself a neo-classical painter with an abhorrence of abstract art, who spent most of her last years arranging exhibitions of her husband's works, turning their Paris studio into a permanent Jo Davidson museum; of a stroke; in Paris.

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