Born. To James Mason, 39, romantic villain of British films (The Seventh Veil, Odd Man Out), and Pamela Kellino Mason, 32, novel-writing cinemactress: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Portland (after Portland Hoffa, wife of Radio Comic Fred Allen). Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 1/2 oz.

Married. Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 47, author (The Battle Is the Payoff, Top Secret), founder and onetime editor of PM (now the N.Y. Star); and Mrs. Mary Hill Doolittle, 34, Pittsburgh socialite-cellist; he for the third time, she for the second; in Lakeville, Conn.

Died. Jack Delaney (real name: Ovila Chapdelaine), 48, Canadian-born onetime light heavyweight champion of the world (1926-27); of cancer; in Katonah, N.Y.

Died. Lewis R. ("Hack") Wilson, 48, colorful, brawling onetime National League home-run king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke.

Died. Alfred Robert McIntyre, 62, president of the century-old book publishing firm, Little, Brown & Co.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. Mclntyre believed in a policy of "fewer and better books," helped develop such authors as James Hilton, A. J. Cronin, John P. Marquand.

Died. Nellie Wallace, 78, tireless, buck-toothed British music-hall comedienne, who for nearly 40 years was a popular turn at London's famed Palladium with her shrill Cockney songs, red flannel underwear and tattered feather boa; of bronchitis, contracted the day after a performance before the King and Queen; in London.

Died. Anna Jarvis, 84, originator of Mother's Day; in West Chester, Pa. In 1914 Spinster Jarvis finally lobbied Congress and President Wilson into designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, spent the rest of her life vainly scrapping with florists, candy makers and greeting-card companies to keep them from commercializing the day.

Died. George Francis Johnson, 91, co-founder and chairman of the board of the vast Endicott Johnson (shoe) Corp.; in Endicott, N.Y. An ex-shoemaker's apprentice who made good, Johnson spent most of his fortune on the welfare of his workers (his slogan: "a man who dies rich dies disgraced"*).

*Borrowed from a popular version of Andrew Carnegie's thesis that a man who has accumulated wealth should distribute it.

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