Born. To Geraldine Page, 40, most often seen as a neurotic, fluttery spinster on stage (The Three Sisters) and screen (Dear Heart), and Rip Torn, 35, her third husband; their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan.

Died. Gordon Persons, 63, reform-minded Alabama Governor from 1951 to 1955, who in July 1954 put notorious Phenix City under martial rule after his candidate for attorney general, Albert Patterson, was murdered for pledging to stamp out vice, spent the rest of his term cleaning up the town; of a heart attack; in Montgomery, Ala.

Died. Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, 67, founder and longtime coach of the Green Bay Packers pro football team, a former Notre Dame fullback, who in 1919 talked Wisconsin's Indian Packing Co. into bankrolling a team, over the next 31 years led it to 234 victories and six National Football League championships through his development of the forward pass; of a heart attack; in Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

Died. Louise Cromwell Brooks Mac-Arthur Atwill Heiberg, 75, first wife of the late General Douglas MacArthur, a Philadelphia banker's daughter who was the subject of a 1922 press report that widowed four-star General John J. Pershing threatened to exile one-star General MacArthur to the Philippines ("Poppycock," said Black Jack) if she married him, which she did, then divorced him on grounds of incompatibility seven years later; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Dr. Russell LaFayette Cecil, 83, co-author and editor, with Dr. Robert F. Loeb, of the Textbook of Medicine, considered a standard all over the world (eleven editions since 1927), himself a leader in the battle against arthritis, who created one of the first U.S. arthritis clinics in 1922, developed the agglutination test, and was among the first to treat the disease with gold salts; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan.

Died. Wilfred John Funk, 83, master wordsmith and retired president of Funk & Wagnalls publishing house; of arteriosclerosis; in Montclair, N.J. (see PRESS).

Died. George Allen Hancock, 89, California oilman and philanthropist, who inherited a 3,000-acre ranch in 1883, discovered the famed La Brea tar pits full of prehistoric remains while digging for oil (which he also found), made a fortune from his wells and the sale of property for what is now Los Angeles' Wilshire district, later gave $7,000,000 to the University of Southern California; of a heart attack; in Santa Maria, Calif.

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