Born. To Ann Farley Hickey, 23, daughter of ex-Postmaster General James A. Farley, and Edward John Hickey, 26: their first child (and big Jim's first grandchild), a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Ellen Louise. Weight: 8 Ibs. 8 oz.

Died. J. (for Joseph) Melville Broughton, 60, North Carolina's Democratic freshman Senator and onetime governor (1941-45); of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Charles Hanson Towne, 72, litterateur, minor poet (Manhattan) and editor (the old Smart Set, McClure's, Harper's Bazaar); after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. A. (for Arthur) Atwater Kent, 75, multimillionaire radio manufacturer; in Los Angeles. The first big-time radio sponsor (Atwater Kent Hour), he got his start making electrical equipment for automobiles, switched to radios in 1922, did an estimated $60 million worth of business in 1929. He retired in 1936 and moved to Bel Air, where his lavish parties won him the name of "Mr. Host."

Died. Sol Bloom, 78, longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (except for the Republican 80th Congress), Democratic Representative from New York's 20th (Manhattan) District since 1923; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. Son of Polish immigrants, onetime song-plugger and showman (he was earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince-nezed, courtly Sol Bloom authored the revised Neutrality Act of 1939, helped pilot Lend-Lease through the House in 1941, in 1945 was a delegate to the San Francisco Conference that founded U.N.

Died. James Rowland Angell, 79, noted psychologist and 14th president of Yale University (1921-37); of cancer; in Hamden, Conn.

Died. John Sanburn Phillips, 87, genial, Iowa-born editor credited with developing more prominent writers than any other editor of his generation; after long illness; in Goshen, N.Y. A partner (with Samuel S. McClure) in one of the first U.S. newspaper syndicates (1886), Phillips hired Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain * among his first contributors, later helped publish and manage McClure's Magazine, founded the American Magazine in 1906.

* Said Editor Phillips: "Twain's serial story wasn't so hot. It was one of those Tom Sawyer things. But we paid him."

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