Born. To Janet Helen Attlee Shipton, 25, daughter of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and Harold William Shipton, 27, electronics engineer: their first child, a daughter; in Bristol, England. Name: Ann Helen. Weight: 6 Ibs. 6 oz.

Born. To Jinx Falkenburg, 29, ex-model and cinemactress (Cover Girl), now chatty hostess of NBC's evening interview Tex and Jinx, and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary, 37, Tex and Jinx's drawling host: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Kevin. Weight: 8 Ibs.

Born. To Edward Vincent ("Eddie") Bracken, 34, cinecomic (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), and Connie Nickerson Bracken, 34, onetime Broadway actress: their fourth child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Kathleen. Weight: 8 Ibs. 2 oz.

Died. Dr. Yellapragada SubbaRow,

52, Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin).

Died. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 53, baseball's home-run king; of cancer; in Manhattan (see SPORT).

Died. May de Sousa, 66, light-opera favorite at the turn of the century; of starvation; in a Chicago charity ward. A detective's daughter, she first sang in vaudeville, moved on to Broadway, hit her peak touring Europe in such productions as The Wizard of Oz and The Tenderfoot. She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman.

Died. Jack ("Pop") Cooper, 68, wiry, white-thatched speedboat racer, two-time vinner of the U.S. National Sweepstakes Regatta (1937-40), onetime holder of every speed record for 225-cu.-in. hydroplanes; of injuries in a racing accident; in Syracuse, N.Y.

Died. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, first Baron Harmsworth of Egham, 78, scholarly, Liberal younger brother of the late Tory Publishers Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere (London Daily Mail), longtime Member of Parliament (1906-22), short-time Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1919-22); in London.

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