Born. To Cinemactress Betty Grable, 27, and Trumpeter Harry Haag James, 32: a daughter, their first child; in Hollywood. Name: Victoria Elizabeth. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz.

Killed in Action. Staff Sergeant John Aloysius Bushemi, 26, probably the best-known noncom in the Pacific area (one of Yank's finest cameramen), Iowa-born buddy of Sergeant Marion Hargrove (See Here, Private Hargrove); on the Eniwetok beachhead.

Death Revealed. General Berthold von Deimling, 91, commander (1914-17) of the German Army's Verdun-famed XV Corps; on Feb. 11; in Germany.

Died. Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, 47, homicide's tycoon (Murder, Inc.), arch-racketeer; in the electric chair; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., eight years after his conviction for the murder of clothing trucker Joseph Rosen. Fawnlike. liquid-eyed, Russian-born son of an immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry. He was reputed to have ordered 80 murders.

Died. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 82, President of Finland from 1931 to 1937; in Finland. Big, bald, bristling Svinhufvud (translation: pig head) was the typical Finnish national hero; a strong man, consistently pro-German and anti-Russian. In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia. On his return to Finland in 1917 he picked Germany as a good thing, next year asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. When the Allies won the war, Svinhufvud resigned, General Baron Mannerheim came to power. The two men in 1931 emerged on top of the nation, directed its disastrous foreign policy. Domestically, Svinhufvud tolerated no nonsense, quelled Communists and Fascists alike.

Died. Lucius Nathan Littauer, 85, glovemaker and first citizen of Gloversville, N.Y.; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Gentle, bald, waving-mustached Littauer was Harvard '78, a high-tariff Republican Congressman (1897-1907), a philanthropist whose most noted single gift ($2,250,000) founded Harvard's graduate School of Public Administration and Littauer Center. In 1939 he said he had "confidence for the future in spite of the present." In 1941, asked his opinion of the world at large, he sighed, "Don't ask me that. I'm a pessimist."

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