Born. To Harry James, 52, top trumpeter and bandleader in the '40s and early '50s, now playing in Las Vegas, and Joan Boyd, 28, former showgirl he married last December: a boy, their first child; in Las Vegas.

Married. Peter Edelman, 30, one of the top political brains on the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy's campaign team; and Marian Wright, 29, an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer and first Negro to be admitted to the bar in Mississippi, whom he met last year while helping Kennedy conduct hearings on poverty in the state; he for the second time; in McLean, Va. Edelman wore an off-white Nehru jacket, former U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg quoted a little Dickens, and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale's recently convicted antidraft chaplain, read the vows.

Married. Edward J. Sponga, 50, No. 1 Jesuit priest of Maryland Province; and Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a divorced nurse (see RELIGION).

Died. Maharajah Sir Pratap Singh, 60, member of India's fabulously rich aristocracy, whose income, estimated at $160,000 a week in 1951, ranked him among the world's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in London. A whirlwind life of fast planes and thoroughbred horses was the maharajah's style, and as prince of Baroda State, he played the role to the hilt, even after Nehru stripped him of his title for misusing $5,000,000 of the state's funds.

Died. Westbrook Van Voorhis, 64, the voice on the March of Time radio, movie and TV documentaries from 1931 to 1953 when the Time Inc. shows ended; of cancer; in New Milford, Conn. A colleague once said that Van Voorhis' delivery sounded "like the voice of God." His authoritative style set the tone for a generation of radio newsmen, and his "Time marches on" put a new phrase into the language.

Died. Corneille Heymans, 76, Belgian physiologist who won a 1938 Nobel prize for discovering a main control mechanism for blood pressure and respiration; of cerebral thrombosis; in Knokke, Belgium. While he began his experiments in 1924, it was not until 1950 that Heymans discovered that specialized nerve endings called presso-receptors monitor blood pressure.

Died. Konstantin Paustovsky, 76, Soviet author (The Story of a Life), and dean of his country's literary liberals; of heart disease; in Moscow. Although a traditionalist in much of his own work, Paustovsky defended such rebels as Boris Pasternak and Yuli Daniel, was so well entrenched that the Kremlin could only let him have his say.

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