Born. To Susan Strasberg, 27, Broadway's once-shining Anne Frank (1955) and ever-suffering screen ingenue (Kapo), and Chris Jones, 25, TV's Jesse James: their first child, a daughter, in Los Angeles.

Died. Abraham M. Saperstein, 63, founder and coach of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, who took over the Negro club in 1925 when it was Chicago's Savoy Big Five, renamed it, and toured it through the U.S. while the team developed the razzle-dazzle, whoop-dribble-and-holler technique that was originally adopted to save the players' legs (they play some 340 games a year) but later became the style which set spectators roaring in 87 countries; of a heart attack; in Chicago.

Died. George C. McConnaughey, 69, Federal Communications Commission chairman during 1954-57, a convivial Ohio Republican lawyer who ran the agency with "as few controls on business as possible," retired to face a noisy House subcommittee probe of rumored bribes in the awarding of TV channels in Miami and Pittsburgh, which, though never proved, led to a narrowing of the FCC's eye toward every aspect of the TV industry from license petitions to programming; of cancer; in Columbus.

Died. Fritz Zernike, 77, Dutch physicist who in 1953 won the Nobel Prize for his 1932 invention of the phase-contrast microscope, which uses minute variations in light refraction (rather than often deadly dyes) to form images of transparent organisms, thus allowing cancer researchers and other scientists to observe living, unadulterated cells for the first time; after a long illness; in Naarden, The Netherlands.

Died. Thomas D. Campbell, 84, the No. 1 U.S. wheat grower, who introduced modern, large-scale farming in the '20s by bringing giant machinery and scientific techniques to his vast (now 65,000 acres) Montana spread, so refined its efficiency over the years that it now yields the country's biggest wheat crop-some 336,000 bu., or a year's supply for 130,000 people-with only 20 full-time hands; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif.

Died. Henry Revell Harmer, 96, founder and chairman of London's 48year-old H. R. Harmer Ltd., world's biggest stamp dealer, who revolutionized the trade by introducing art-market-style auctioneering while making fond philatelists, during the '20s and '30s, of such customers as then-King Carol II of Rumania and Farouk of Egypt with canny hints that rare stamps are more portable than crown jewels; of a stroke; in Horsham, England.

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