Born. To Lauren Bacall. 37, willowy widow of Humphrey Bogart. and Jason Robards Jr., 39, talented, turbulent Broadway and Hollywood star whom she married last July 4: their first child, a son (she has two children by Bogart, he three by a previous marriage); in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage; in Greensburg. Pa.

Died. Moss Hart, 57, peerless creator of Broadway and Hollywood classics, a genial, satanic-looking genius who wrote 22 plays (including 1937 Pulitzer Prizewinner You Can't Take It with You) and directed eleven (including My Fair Lady and Camelot); of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. The son of an impoverished cigarmaker, Hart broke into the entertainment business as a social director on New York's "borscht circuit." wrote his first successful play (Once in a Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including The Man Who Came to Dinner and Lady in the Dark, out of remembered horror of his boyhood poverty disposed of his immense earnings in a manner so lavish that it was said to illustrate "what God would do if he had money," and finally cemented his claim to a place in theatrical legend with Act One, the disarmingly candid autobiography of a man who described his life as a mixture of "New York, Hollywood, insomnia, nervous indigestion and a childlike passion for the theater."

Died. John Parsons O'Donnell. 65, longtime (1933-61) Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News whose hard-hitting column, "Capitol Stuff," won him fame as one of his generation's top political reporters; of chronic congestive heart failure; in Washington. An engaging Boston Irishman with limitless gusto for the mechanics of politics. O'Donnell larded his stories with strongly conservative and isolationist opinions that landed him in endless clamorous hassles (most notable: F.D.R.'s angry World War II press conference "awarding" him the Iron Cross) but never dimmed his conviction that politics was essentially a matter of personalities and practicalities rather than ideologies.

Died. Elia Cardinal dalla Costa. 89, Archbishop of Florence and oldest member of the Sacred College, a tall, austere cleric who helped thousands of Italians to escape Fascist execution during World War II, became known throughout Italy as "the Cardinal of Charity"; of pulmonary complications; in Florence.

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