Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet.

Born. To Signor Tito Schipa, tenor, and Signora Schipa; a daughter. Tenor Schipa, singing in Florence, Italy, received the following cable from his wife in Beverly Hills. Cal.: "Not Tito Jr., tenor, but Giuliana, coloratura soprano, arrived last night. All well."

Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 19, cinemactor; to Joan Crawford (real name Lucille Fay La Sueur), 21, cinemactress; in Manhattan. Cinemactor Fairbanks is Senior Fairbanks' son by his first wife (Beth Sully), who was only family member present at ceremony. Returned to the Hotel Algonquin Mrs. Crawford-Fairbanks wrote: "Dear Mother: It is but an hour since. . . ." Said Cinemactor Fairbanks; "Our affair was a sweet and romantic one." Too busy, they said, to honeymoon, they returned soon after the wedding to Hollywood to resume work, he with First National Pictures, she with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Neither has been married before.

Elected. Dr. Henry Raymond Mussey, Wellesley College Economics Professor; to be managing editor of The Nation.

Elected. Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, Provost of Johns Hopkins University since 1926, to be President, succeeding Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, 64, who announced his resignation more than a year ago. Since that time Johns Hopkins trustees have searched for a man of 40 years or less to be President. Although Dr. Ames, 64, was elected without reservations, trustees will still search for young presidential possibilities.

Reelected. John R. Yoorhis, 99, New York City Board of Elections president; to be Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, New York City.

Resigned. Dr. Ozora Stearns Davis, 62, of Chicago. Congregational Minister; as president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church.

Resigned. Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton, 70, founder in 1896 and only director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, to devote himself to private research in tropical flora. Gardener Britton had nursed a wooded waste to third place in botanical garden fame, to world-known horticultural and botanical exhibits. Exhibits number millions, attendance averages 50,000 on summer Sundays. Long an advocate of planting Japanese ginkgo trees, Gardener Britton is also co-author of a four-volume treatise on cacti.

Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight.

Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comedienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn, 12.

Died. Richard Reti, 40, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, famed chessman; in Prague. His record: 25 games of chess played while blindfolded.

Died. Harry Herbert Frazee, 48, of Manhattan, onetime prizefight promoter, onetime (1915-23) owner of Boston Red Sox, theatrical-producer (A Pair of Sixes, Nothing but the Truth, No No Nanette); in Manhattan.

Died. William Bliss Carman, 68, of New Canaan, Conn., famed poet, descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1928 winner of Canada's Poet Laureate Medal; at New Canaan.

Died. Sir Cecil Burney, Bart., 71, of London, Admiral of the British Fleet, second in command at the famed Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), in London. His son, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney. designer of Airship R-100, succeeds to the baronetcy.

Died. Mrs. Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw, 90, of Pittsburgh, widow of the late steelman William Thaw, philanthropist, charity worker, mother of Harry K. Thaw, who, in 1906, killed Architect Stanford White; at "Oak Lawn," Pittsburgh. A daughter is Countess de Perigny (Margaret Carnegie Thaw).

* Son of a Vermont baggageman. Dr. Davis sold newspapers in his youth, learned telegraphy, worked his way through Dartmouth, later won a traveling fellowship and received a Ph.D. at German University of Leipzig. His malady incurable, he said last week: "Of course, I don't want to go--this is a mighty interesting world and I'm having a mighty good time in it. But I'm no more afraid of it (death) than I am of walking through the door to this study, for I know that I shall have a spiritual body to do with as I please and won't have to worry about the aches and pains. . . . This world has been very good to me. . . ."