Born. To Actor David Nelson, 25, Ozzie and Harriet's elder son, and June Blair Nelson, 23, who joined the family TV program in 1960 as David's girl friend: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica.

Divorced. Arnold Eric Sevareid, 49, quick-witted CBS news analyst and liberal New York Post columnist; by Lois Finger Sevareid, 51; on grounds of desertion, after nearly 28 years of marriage, two children; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Rosemary Carr Benet, 64. widow of Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, whom she met in Paris in 1920 when he was an impecunious young Yale graduate working out his The Beginning of Wisdom, herself an author, poet and critic, who translated the works of Andre Maurois but was best known for her 1933 collaboration with her husband on A Book of Americans, a lyric history in verse; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson, 70, six-gun king of the celluloid range, a homely Nebraska cowboy who thrilled three decades of moviegoers, starting out in 1910 as a $20-a-week stunt man and going on to become one of horse opera's Big Five (the others: Torn Mix, William S. Hart, Harry Carey, Buck Jones) in the 1920s and '30s, earning $14,500 a week at the peak of his career, and letting it slip through his fingers like quicksilver until in his last years he was almost broke; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif.

Died. Abraham Levitt, 82, builder, whose mass-production-minded sons William and Alfred broke the building of a house down into 26 assembly-line steps, made their family firm, Levitt & Sons, one of the biggest U.S. home builders, slapping together 40,000 low-cost dwellings in three uniformly antiseptic developments on Long Island, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, introduced the word Levittown to the language; after a long illness; in Manhasset, L.I.

Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Wheelock Moulton, 89, longtime (1920-46) Episcopal Bishop of Utah, a slender, outgoing cleric who became a zealous, if sometimes confused, campaigner for world peace after his retirement in 1946, frequently lending his name to Communist-front groups, but turning down a $25,000 Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 with a cool rebuke: "The only reward I want in working for peace is peace"; in Salt Lake City.

Died. Mary Gibbs Jones, 90, widow of Texas builder (and onetime Commerce Secretary) Jesse H. Jones, who helped her husband give away his construction millions, organizing with him the $500 million Houston Endowment Inc. that helps support Rice University, while setting up scholarships in her name in 44 colleges, seminaries, and universities; of a heart attack; in Houston.

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