Born. To Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 27, Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis in one action), and May Frances Boish Kelly, 21: their second child, first son; in Pittsburgh. Name: Charles Jr. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Born. To James Thomas Farrell, 43, author of the sad and sordid Studs Lonigan trilogy, and Hortense Alden Farrell: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Stephen. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz.

Died. Janet Fairbank, 44, concert soprano, venturesome talent-hunter, daughter of Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank (The Bright Land), niece of Pulitzer Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (Years of Grace); of malignant leukemia; in Chicago. Her practice of singing new songs instead of sure-fire classics consistently lost her money, won her the gratitude of young U.S. composers.

Died. Hugh John Lofting, 61, English born storyteller whose Dr. Doolittle series (about a kind country doctor and his talkative animal friends) has entertained children for nearly three decades; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Pierre Lecomte du Nouey, 64, topnotch French scientist, philosopher; after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Princess Elsa of Liechtenstein, 72, widow of the late Franz I, onetime ruler of the postage-stamp principality nestled between Austria and Switzerland; of a heart attack; at Lake Vitznau, Switzerland. Granddaughter of a wealthy Viennese banker, Elsa de Guttmann secretly married Franz in 1921 (she was Jewish; he a Roman Catholic). When the 76-year-old Prince succeeded to the throne in 1929, the couple went through a public ceremony. After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting "too old."

Died. The Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson, 83, sharp-tongued onetime (1920-39) Anglican Bishop of Durham, England; near Ipswich, England. One of the first British critics of the Nazis and their antiSemitism, Bishop Henson made many enemies with his scathing denunciations of the Oxford Group, Edward VIII's marriage, the U.S. ("a conspicuous illustration of the folly of neglecting the moral factor in life"), and the U.S.S.R. "with its hideous doctrine of mechanized humanity."

Died. Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, 86, retired head of the history department at the University of Chicago (1906-27), whose study of the U.S. Government won him the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for History (A Constitutional History of the United States); of pneumonia; in Chicago.

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