Born. To Jerome Hines, 41, Metropolitan Opera basso who last year became the first native American to sing Boris Godunov in Russia, won a standing ovation; and Lucia Evangelista Hines, 39, Italian-born soprano: a fourth son, fourth child; in Newark.

Married. Margott Perez Jimenez, 17, eldest daughter of Venezuela's ex-Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez (who languishes in a Miami jail awaiting possible extradition home on charges of embezzling $13 million); and Lee Brook, 20, a onetime car-park attendant; after an elopement that touched off a nationwide hunt, which ended when Brook called his brother from their hideout, a nearby motel, to announce: "I love her and I've got her"; in Key West, Fla.

Died. Frans Blom, 69, Danish explorer and archaeologist who went to Mexico in 1922, was so intrigued by the ruins of the ancient Mayas and by their nearly extinct descendants that he settled near the Guatemalan border, authored works on the Mayas (Tribes and Temples), raised two children from a Stone Age tribe in his home, training them in the ways of modern man so they could return as teachers to their people; of pneumonia; in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico.

Died. John Franklin ("Home Run") Baker, 77, Hall of Fame slugger in baseball's era of the "dead ball," who as a third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics in Connie Mack's famed "$100,000 infield" four times led the American League in homers (peak year: 1913, with twelve), retired in 1922 to his Maryland farm when his legs started to fail; of a stroke; in Trappe, Md.

Died. Edgar Thomas Welch, 82, eldest son of the founder of the $54 million Welch Grape Juice Co., maker of half the world's grape juice, who became president when his father died in 1926, four years later with his three brothers gave 10% of the company's common stock to its 300 employees as a Christmas gift, then resigned to spend he rest of his life and fortune on good works for the Methodist Church; after a long illness; in Westfield, N.Y.

Died. George Malvin Holley, 85, auto pioneer who in 1902 was asked by Henry Ford to design a fuel system, produced an "iron pot" carburetor to stoke the engines of 15 million model Ts (as well as Buicks, Pierce-Arrows, Winstons), went on in 1935 to develop the fuel system for the model T of aviation, the Douglas DC-3, and built his Holley Carburetor Co. to current sales of more than $50 million annually; after a long illness; in Detroit.

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