Born. To Molly O'Daniel Wrather, 20, daughter of Texas Senator Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy'') O'Daniel, and Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23: a daughter: in Dallas. Weight: 9 Ib. 13 oz. Name: Molly O'Daniel Wrather Jr.

Born. To Margaret Dowd Corcoran, 29, and New Dealer Thomas Gardner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 41: their second child, first son; in Washington. Weight: 91b.

Married. Joseph B. ("Tinker to Evers to Chance") Tinker, 61, member of baseball's famed double-play combination in the early 1900s; and Susanna Margaret Chabot, 40; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Orlando, Fla.

Sued for Divorce. By Cinemarmful Ann Sothern, 33: Actor Roger Pryor, 38; on grounds of "great and grievous cruelty"; in Hollywood.

Divorced. By Scripps-Howard Columnist Ernie Pyle: Geraldine Siebolds Pyle, referred to in many of his columns as "that girl"; after 16 years; in Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Died. Brigadier General Hugh Samuel ("Old Ironpants") Johnson, 59; of pneumonia; in Washington (see p. 75).

Died. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 65, wealthy art patron, sculptress; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, she was the widow of Manhattan Financier Harry Payne Whitney, who died in 1930 and left her the bulk of his $63,000,000 fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco.

Died. Alfred Hertz. 69, black-bearded, bald conductor of German opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1902 to 1915, director of the San Francisco Symphony for the following 15 years; in San Francisco. At the Met he conducted the first U.S. performances of Richard Strauss's Salome and Rosenkavalier.

Died. Jean Perrin. 71, refugee French physicist, 1926 winner of the Nobel Prize; in Manhattan. A onetime associate of the Curies, famed for his studies of molecular physics, he announced in 1938 that he had discovered evidence of the existence of an element heavier than element 92 (uranium), called it transuranium.

Left. By the late George Edgar Merrick, Florida land-boom multimillionaire in the '20s, founder of Coral Gables: $300.

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