Monday, Feb. 09, 1948

Born. To Shirley Temple, 19, cinema's No. 1 curlylocks of the '30s, and Husband John Agar, 26: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Linda Susan. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.

Born. To Theodore Samuel ("Ted") Williams, 29, Boston Red Sox star, No. 1 slugger of the American League in 1947, and Doris Soule Williams, 29: their first child, a daughter; in Boston. Name: Barbara Joyce. Weight: 5 Ibs. 6 oz.

Died. Herbert J. ("Herb") Pennock, 53, slender, stylish Yankee southpaw during the golden '20s (and more recently general manager and revitalizer of the perennially futile Phillies); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Donald Bertrand Tresidder, 53, president of Stanford University since 1943; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Businessman Tresidder ran the university without sacrificing academic standards, largely through personal magnetism attracted nearly $8 million in endowments. Enormously popular with the students, "Uncle Don" managed to abolish sororities in 1944 without arousing any personal resentment.

Died. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, 70, retired president of California's Mills College (1916-43), outstanding Dante scholar (editor and translator: The Monarchia of Dante Alighieri), first woman moderator of a major U.S. church (Unitarian Churches of America, 1940-42); after long illness; in Palo Alto, Calif.

Died. Orville Wright, 76, co-inventor of the airplane; of a heart ailment and lung congestion; in Dayton (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 78; by an assassin's pistol; in New Delhi (see INTERNATIONAL).

Died. John Avery Lomax, 80, pioneer collector of U.S. folksongs; of a heart attack; in Greenville, Miss. Portly, amiable Lomax recognized American balladry as folk art, traveled through cow country and mining camps, saloons 'and prisons, discovered and recorded such classics as Home on the Range and Goodbye Old Paint.

Died. Thomas Theodor Heine,*80, cofounder, cartoonist and guiding genius of Germany's late great humor magazine Simplicissimus; in Stockholm. Sharp-penned Heine was jailed for making fun of the Kaiser, exiled in 1933 for making fun of Hitler. In his old age he ruefully remarked that "ridicule does not kill, it popularizes."

*No kin to Poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856).

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