Born. To Jack Nicklaus, 23, world's most professional golfer (see SPORT), and Barbara Bash Nicklaus, 23: their second child, second son; in Columbus, Ohio.

Married. Anita Ekberg, 31, Swedish smorgasbord in sexy Italian movies; and Friederick Von Nutter, 33. American bit actor; she for the second time, he for the first; in Viganello, Switzerland.

Died. Charlene Wrightsman Cassini. 35, beautiful wife of Society Columnist Igor Cassini; by her own hand (sleeping pills); in Manhattan (see THE NATION).

Died. Mary Dowell Copeland, 48. Manhattan nightlife's big (6 ft. 3 in.), beautiful "Stutterin' Sam" of the '30s and '40s, a Texas-born show girl and one of Billy Rose's original "long-stemmed American Beauties," who quit at the height of her fame ("I've been a clothes horse for fi-i-i-ve years--how do I know I'm not an idi-i-i-ot?") to try her hand at Hollywood scriptwriting and finally became the happy wife of an advertising executive; of porphyria; in Manhattan.

Died. Joe Jones. 54, landscape painter and muralist, a St. Louis housepainter's son who burst on the art world in the depressed '30s with a Manhattan exhibition of raw, shocking canvases (among them: American Justice, showing a half-naked, just-lynched prostitute against a background of quietly chatting Ku Klux Klansmen), over the years mellowed and developed a softer Japanese-like style in easel paintings, covers for TIME (travel, Christmas shopping), and in sweeping landscape murals, one of the best of which, a 40-ft. by 8-ft. scene of Boston Harbor, adorns the dining salon of the S.S. Independence; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J.

Died. Tupua Tamasese Mea A Ole, 55, joint head of state (with Malietoa Tanumafili II) of Western Samoa. Polynesia's first, and so far only, independent nation, a shrewd and urbane politician, who negotiated his South Pacific island country's peaceful 1961 breakaway from New Zealand; of cancer; in Western Samoa.

Died. Otto Struve, 65, astronomer and foremost exponent of the theory that there is life elsewhere in the universe, a White Russian who fled to the U.S. in 1921 to begin a visual study of stellar evolution, became convinced that there are 50 billion planets in the heavens. 2% of which could support life of some sort, and in 1960 led a major but unsuccessful attempt by radio astronomy to pick up intelligible signals from outer space; of a chronic liver ailment; in Berkeley, Calif.

Died. Carl Reinhold Hellstrom, 68, president since 1946 of gunmakers Smith & Wesson Inc., a Swedish-born engineer who joined the company in 1931, found it with no blueprints for its weapons, no research or engineering department, no catalogue of its thousands of tools, by World War II had so changed things that Smith & Wesson cornered 75% of U.S. Army revolver orders, has since all but pushed rival Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. out of the sidearms business; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass.

Died. Benno Moiseiwitsch, 73, Russian-born piano virtuoso in the grand, romantic style, who at 19 made his triumphant debut in London (where he decided to remain, becoming a British subject in 1937), has since been England's year-in-and-out favorite, neglecting modern composers almost completely for Schumann, Chopin and his close friend Rachmaninoff; of a heart attack; in London.

Died. R. Lawrence Oakley, 73, Wall Street reformer in the years after the 1929 crash, an earnest, unshakable broker who, as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange's 1935 nominating committee, engineered the ouster of the Exchange's complacent, do-nothing old guard, notably Exchange President Richard Whitney, who two years later was jailed for shady stock manipulations; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn.

Died. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, 73, scourge of the bootleggers in Prohibition days as an assistant attorney general in charge of prisons, tax cases and violations of the Volstead Act, a mild-looking one-time civics teacher who left her husband in 1916 to pursue a lawyer's career, soon became famous for her devotion to the letter of the Prohibition law, earning the taunting nickname of "that Prohibition Portia"; of cancer; in Riverside, Calif.

Died. Joseph Newton Pew Jr., 76, board chairman of Sun Oil Co. since 1947 and longtime financial angel to the Republican Party, a spare, articulate innovator who in 1931 built the first gasoline pipeline from a refinery (in Marcus Hook, Pa.) to a marketing area (the Great Lakes) and later dreamed up the Sunoco "custom blending" pump which adjusts to deliver eight gasolines of varying octane content; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. An early supporter of the New Deal, Pew angrily changed his mind in 1933 when F.D.R. tried to fix oil prices, turned to the G.O.P. with his time and money, becoming one of Pennsylvania's most powerful political voices.

Died. Amedeo Maiuri, 77, Italy's best-known archaeologist and the man responsible for the restoration of Pompeii from 1924 to 1961, who discovered the famed Campanian murals that pictured life in the once thriving city and perfected a way to cast in plaster the body imprints of the citizens buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79; in Naples.

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