Born. To James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 40, bandleader whose weekly radio hour (the College of Musical Knowledge) helped sell Lucky Strikes for seven years ; and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 26, whose photographs when she was Powers' highest-paid model helped sell Chesterfields: their first child, a daughter ; in Hollywood. Name : Kimberly Ann. Weight : 8 Ibs. 8 oz.

Born. To Pat O'Brien, 46, soft-hearted tough guy of the screen, and Eloise Taylor O'Brien, 43, onetime Broadway actress: their first child of their own (three adopted), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Kathleen Bridget. Weight: 6 Ibs.

Married. Sonya Stokowski, 24,* actress daughter of Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his first wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff Stokowski; and Flight Lieut. Willem Thorbecke, 24, Royal Netherlands Air Force pilot who flew with the R.A.F., son of The Netherlands prewar minister to China; both for the first time; in Manhattan.

Died. John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson, 68, first Negro heavyweight champion of the world (1908-15); of auto-accident in juries; near Franklinton, N.C., Texas-born, "Li'l Artha" fought for a living (and a high one) for 29 years. A fine defensive boxer, Johnson won his title from Canadian Tommy Burns in 1908, lost it to Jess Willard in 1915, precariously passed the latter years of his life on the ragged edge of show business.

Died. Louis Kroh Liggett, 71, founder of United-Rexall Drug Co. and the Liggett drugstore chain (502 stores); in Washington. A Scottish-Dutch boy from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have."

Died. Frank Case, 73, urbane proprietor-host of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, where the literati of the '20s (Woollcott, Benchley, etc., etc.) lunched at his famed Round Table, and where for four decades he matched wits with assorted writers and actors, afterwards chronicled their comings & goings in two volumes of anecdotes (Tales of a Wayward Inn, Do Not Disturb}; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

Died. George Albert Hormel, 85, founder of George A. Hormel & Co. (now run by his son Jay), Minnesota meat-packing house which kills a million pigs a year ; after a stroke ; in Los Angeles.

*Two years older than her stepmother, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski.

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