Born. To Dennis Day, 49, onetime radio and TV tenor (The Jack Benny Show), now doing an occasional nightclub bit; and Peggy McNulty, 41, his wife of 18 years: their tenth child, fourth daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. The addition to the Day nursery prompted the Bobby Kennedys, expecting their tenth in the spring, to whip off a congratulatory telegram: IN 1968 WE WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO THE WORLD'S FAMILY FOOTBALL-TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP.

Died. Harold Talburt, 71, chief editorial cartoonist of Scripps-Howard Newspapers from 1922 to 1963, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his "The Light of Asia" (a fist labeled Japan grasping a torch of burning peace treaties), but is best remembered for his "John Q. Public,"a poor soul reduced to wearing a barrel after paying his taxes; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Robert Geronimo, 77, Apache Warrior Geronimo's last surviving son, who was born after his dread dad's surrender to the U.S. Army (ending decades of terrorizing the Southwest), lived with his mother, Kate Cross-Eyes, on the Mescalero, N. Mex., Indian reservation, where he was a farmer and an occasional adviser on Apache movies; of pneumonia; in Mescalero.

Died. Arthur William Brown, 85, foremost U.S. magazine illustrator in the 1920s and '30s, who once said of his craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Barry Faulkner, 85, muralist, whose massive works decorate statehouses and office buildings across the country, most notably The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution in the exhibition hall of the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and Intelligence Awakening Mankind, a 79-ft. by 14-ft. mosaic in Manhattan's RCA building; in Keene, N.H.

Died. H. Alexander Smith, 86, Republican Senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1959, a scholarly Princetonian ('01) who studied political science under Woodrow Wilson, carved a notable career as a lawyer, Princeton lecturer on international relations and Government consultant, then, at 64, won election to the Senate, where he staunchly advocated a bipartisan foreign policy, and later became one of the most powerful senatorial voices in support of Nationalist China; of a stroke; in Princeton, NJ.

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