Born. To Anne Kaufman Colen, 22, dark-haired only child of George S. Kaufman, hit playwright, collaborator (You Can't Take It with You, The Man Who Came to Dinner) with Moss Hart (see below), and Bruce Colen, 23, an editor of Holiday: their first child, a girl. Name: Beatrice (after her late maternal grandmother). Weight: 8 lbs. 4 oz.

Born. To Moss Hart, 43, hit playwright (Lady in the Dark, Christopher Blake), and Kitty Carlisle, 35, popular musicomedy and cinema charmer of the '30s: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz.

Married. David Niven, 37, sparrowy, Scottish-born cinemactor (Raffles, The Bishop's Wife), and Hjoerdis Demberg Tersmeden, 27, red-haired Swedish ex-model; each for the second time (his first wife died in 1946 from an accidental fall); in London.

Married. Thomas Hambly Beck, 66, board chairman of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine), side-liner in private aviation and bird conservation; and Martha Margaret Gallagher, 41, retired actress; he for the third time, she for the first; in New Milford, Conn.

Died. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 34, gentleman-farmer great-grandson of Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel, great-grandson of the late Wall Street Plunger Jay Gould; of an accidental gunshot wound; in Oakley, S.C.

Died. Otis Chatfield-Taylor, 47, Chicago socialite, literary dilettante, brother of Wayne C. Taylor, onetime Under Secretary of Commerce; after an automobile accident; in Ossining, N.Y.

Died. Peter de Rochegune Munch, 77, prewar pacifist, Foreign Minister of Denmark from 1929 to 1940; in Copenhagen. He visualized a Scandinavian "oasis of peace," signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in May 1939--ten months before the Nazi invasion of Denmark.

Died. Josephus Daniels, 85, "Tar Heel Editor," World War I Secretary of the Navy (his Assistant Secretary: young Franklin D. Roosevelt), onetime (1933-41) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico; of pneumonia; in Raleigh, N.C. Secretary Daniels disturbed Navy traditionalists, outlawed liquor on Navy vessels (a, rule still in force), took pride in the Navy's record of transporting all U.S. troops to Europe without a casualty. A professional journalist from the age of 18 (he became editor of the Raleigh News and Observer in 1894), string-tied Editor Daniels was a folksy foe of Republicans, booze and vested interests, championed Southern Methodism and the common man.

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