Born. To Lieut. Robert Morris Morgenthau, U.S.N.R., 25, younger son of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; and Martha Pattridge Morgenthau, 25: their first child, the Secretary's first grandchild, a daughter; in Minneapolis. Name: Joan. Weight: 7 1/2 lbs. Beaming Grandfather Morgenthau announced the birth at his weekly Washington press conference.

Born. To Leopold Godowsky Jr., 44, co-inventor of Kodachrome color film and son of the late famed pianist-composer; and Frances Gershwin Godowsky, 37, sister of the late Composer George Gershwin: twin daughters, their third and fourth children; in Manhattan. Names: Georga (after her uncle) and Nayna. Weights: 6 lbs. 8 oz., and 5 lbs. 10 oz.

Married. Beatrice Wasserman Buchalter, 40, nightclubbing widow of Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, gangster, and labor racketeer executed last year for a Murder, Inc. slaying; and Arthur Jarwood, 37, onetime Manhattan nightclub proprietor; she for the third time, he for the second; in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Died. Tess Slesinger (rhymes with messenger), 39, mordantly witty litterateur, whose early, bright promise as an author (The Unpossessed) faded when she became a well-paid cinemadapter (The Good Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn); after long illness; in Hollywood.

Died. Jacques Doriot, 57, pudgy, mop-haired, ex-Communist, French Fascist founder of the pro-Nazi French People's Party, who once demanded that Vichy declare war on the U.S. and Britain; from the fire of low-flying Allied planes which attacked his car (according to German reports); in southwestern Germany.

Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and richest citizen (estimated fortune: $500,000).

Died. Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 71, famed pediatrician who overcame male professional prejudice to head the first U.S. child-hygiene bureau in New York City (later copied in nearly every State), brought down the infant death rate from 144 per 1,000 births in 1907 to 66 per 1,000 in 1923; from a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In recent years she shared a farm near Princeton, N.J. with two other noted spinsters: Authoress I. A. R. Wylie, 59, and Dr. Louise Pearce, 59, top-ranking woman doctor with the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research.

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