Born. To Maria Manton Riva, nee Sieber, 23, plump onetime actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, and second husband William Riva, 28, Manhattan scenic artist: their first child (Marlene's first grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Michael. Weight: 8 Ibs. 1 oz.

Married. Barbara Jo Walker, 22, Sunday-school-teaching Miss America (1947); and John Vernon Hummel, 24, medical intern; in Memphis. Some 2,000 guests were invited to the wedding; police held back the uninvited, while firemen's searchlights lit the Methodist Church like a Hollywood premiere.

Married. John Lujack, 23, Notre Dame's All-America quarterback of '46 and '47, who joins the professional Chicago Bears this fall; and Patricia Ann Schierbrock, 21, pretty brunette; in Davenport, Iowa.

Died. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 42, Standard Oil heir, prewar tabloid character; of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. A popular target for assault & battery suits (by his yacht engineer and his secretary), twice-married Rogers enjoyed his greatest notoriety when Musicomedy Actress Evelyn Hoey committed suicide at his Pennsylvania farmhouse in 1935.

Death Reported. Harilal Gandhi, sixtyish, fun-loving, black-sheep eldest of the Mahatma's four sons;* in Bombay. Disowned in 1921, Harilal was converted to Mohammedanism in 1936, took the name Abdulla, offered to give up liquor if his father would give up Hinduism. Within six months Harilal was deconverted, remained faithful to liquor the rest of his life.

Died. Major General William Carey Lee (ret.), 53, hard-bitten founding father of the U.S. Army's Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before D-day in 1944.

Died. Harry Alvin Millis, 75, onetime chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1940-45); in Chicago. Longtime chairman of the University of Chicago's Economics Department and a labor mediator for some 30 years, he was one of the first three NLRB members on its creation in 1934, gave the board a much-needed shaking-up and reform in 1940.

* The others: Ramdes and Devadas (both in India), and Manilal (an anti-discrimination agitator in South Africa).

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