Born. To Swingster Benny Goodman, 33, and Alice Hammond Duckworth Goodman, 37: their first child, Rachel; in Los Angeles. Weight: 6 Ib. 4 oz.

Born. To Cinemactress Rosalind Rus sell, 34, and Army Captain Fred Brisson, 30, peacetime actors' agent: their first child, a boy ; in Hollywood. Weight : 8 1/2 Ib.

Born. To Broadway Producer Jed Har ris, 43, and Cinemactress Louise Platt, 27: a daughter, Abigail; in Los Angeles.

Weight : 6 Ib. 7 oz.

Married. Manuel Ignatius Prado, 22, Oxford-Harvard-educated son of Peru's President, Wall Street bank clerk; and Natalie Kitchin, 20, San Francisco social ite; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. Lionel Atwill, 58, oldtime matinee idol ; by Louise Cromwell Brooks MacArthur Atwill, 49, first wife of General Douglas MacArthur; after 13 years; in Washington.

Killed on Duty. Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, 59; in a plane crash in Iceland.

Died. Gordon Hewart, 73, Viscount of Bury, Lord Chief Justice of England from 1922 to 1940; after long illness; in Totteridge, Herefordshire. A rolypoly little man with a high voice, a low opinion of bureaucracy, broad interests, considerable wit, he read Horace before breakfast, spoke in epigrams, was one of England's greatest liberals. A Lancashire draper's son and a newspaperman before he entered the law, he was King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality pos sible to the human mind," said he once, "is that which arises from an understand ing of neither side of the case." On judges : "The secret [of being a successful judge consists], I fancy, in two things: first, a prolonged and severe training at the Bar; secondly, a full-bottomed wig. . . . The business of a judge is to hold his tongue until the last possible minute and to try to be as wise as he is paid to look."

Died. Dr. Alexander P. Anderson, 80, experimental botanist, who put the air and noise into modern breakfast cereals; of heart disease; in Miami. Experimenting with a test-tubeful of rice at New York's Botanical Garden in 1901, he accidentally exploded it, picked up some of the blasted grains, tasted them, found he had achieved puffed rice. Quaker Oats's interest in his product made him a fortune. He was a notable attraction at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, where he blew grain out of a gunlike apparatus billed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World."

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