Born. To Ballet Dancer Leonide Massine and wife: a daughter; in Los Angeles.

Born. To Metropolitan Opera Basso Ezio Pinza and wife: a daughter; in Manhattan.

Birthday. John Pierpont Morgan, 74; at his estate near Glen Cove, L.I. Said he to reporters: "Will you just leave me alone today?"

Sued for Divorce, Oldtime Matinee Idol Maurice Costello, 64, father of ex-Cinemactresses Dolores and Helene; by Ruth Reeves Costello, thirtyish, his second wife; in Los Angeles.

Died. Harold Craig Severance, 62, designer of the Manhattan Company Building, world's fourth tallest commercial structure; in Neptune, N.J. Completed in 1930 in an "altitude race" with the Chrysler Building, the bank was the world's tallest office building (927 ft.) until a few months later when the Chrysler's crowning spike touched 1,046 ft.

Died. Dr. Walter Granger, 68, explorer and curator of fossil mammals for the American Museum of Natural History; in Lusk, Wyo. He explored the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, helped establish the age of Peking Man at about 500,000 years.

Died. Mario Garcia Menocal, 74, twice President of Cuba (1913-21); in Havana. U.S.-educated, he was manager of the giant Cuban-American Sugar Co. plantation at Chaparra when he first entered politics in the early 1900s. Cuba's World War I sugar boom carried him into his second term. His Presidential career and the boom collapsed together.

Died. Robert Bridges* 83, friend and Princeton classmate of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, famed editor (1914-30) of Scribner's Magazine; in Shippensburg, Pa.

Died. Edward Thomas Taylor, 83, oldest member of the House of Representatives ; in Denver. Chairman of the Appropriations Committee since 1937, he was in his 17th consecutive term--one of only five Congressmen in U.S. history to be re-elected 16 successive times.

Died. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 86, mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; at Hyde Park, N.Y. (see p. 12).

Left. By the late Mont Tennes, onetime Chicago horse-track news tycoon: about $5,000,000; from it, $10,000 a year to a boys' "character home" to be called Camp Honor, $2,000 a month to his widow, $700 a month to each of his four children.

*Not to be confused with Robert Bridges, late poet laureate.

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