BORN. To David Halberstam, 46, Pulitzer-prizewinning Viet Nam correspondent for the New York Times and bestselling author of The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be, and his second wife, Jean Sandness Butler, 33, former Times style-section reporter: a daughter, their first child; in New York City. Name: Julia Sandness. Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz.

DIVORCED. Anita Bryant, 40, singer and Florida orange juice pitchwoman, who crusaded against homosexuals' civil rights and decried "disintegration of the American family"; and Bob Green, onetime disc jockey and her former manager; after 20 years of marriage, four children; in Miami. Bryant has the children, aged 10 to 16. "I failed as a wife," says she. "I don't want to fail as a mother."

DIED. James B. Longley, 56, maverick insurance millionaire who, in 1974, was elected Governor of Maine as an independent; of cancer; in Lewiston. Longley vowed to hold down state spending and not to seek a second term. He kept both promises, halving unemployment, funneling a $40 million state surplus into tax rebates and stepping down last year.

DIED. William J. Sebald, 78, who as political adviser to General Douglas MacArthur in postwar Japan played a leading role in repatriating more than 500,000 Japanese prisoners of war and later served as Ambassador to Burma and Australia; of emphysema; in Naples, Fla.

DIED. James S. McDonnell, 81, founder and chairman of McDonnell Aircraft, which, through a 1967 merger, became McDonnell Douglas, one of the nation's largest defense contractors; following a stroke; in St. Louis. "Old Mac," who called himself a "practicing Scotsman," guided his firm in the 1950s and '60s to manufacture the Mercury and Gemini Space Capsules and F-4 Phantom II fighters used in Viet Nam. In the late 1970s, however, design flaws in the Douglas group's DC-10 commercial jets were blamed for several crashes, precipitating lawsuits and costly losses of civilian and military contracts.

DIED. Otto Frank, 91, father of Anne Frank and sole survivor of the family whose two-year hideout from the Nazis in a Dutch attic during World War II was so poignantly recorded in his daughter's world-famous diary; in Basel, Switzerland. Only Frank survived the family's concentration camp imprisonment. In later years he founded the Anne Frank Foundation, which reconstructed the family's hideaway as a museum and converted the rest of the building into an international youth center.

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