Born. To Deborah Kerr, 30, British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp) who has settled in Hollywood (King Solomon's Mines, Quo Vadis), and Anthony Bartley, 34, producer of adventure movie shorts: their second child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Francesca Ann. Weight: 8 Ibs.

Married. Michelle Bridgit Farmer, 19, up & coming actress (the French film, Monte Carlo Baby), daughter of tireless stage & screen Siren Gloria Swanson and her fourth husband, Michael Farmer; and Robert Amon, 37, Turkish-born Paris moviemaker; in Paterson, N.J.

Died. Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, 53, official British war historian; of asthma; in Nassau. Under the pen names of Francis Beeding and David Pilgrim, Saunders collaborated with John Palmer on some 40 thrillers (Eleven Were Brave), but it was his anonymous histories of Britain's role in World War II (The Battle of Britain; Combined Operations) that reached the top of the bestseller lists (more than 12 million copies).

Died. Henry G. Bennett, 65, longtime (1928-50) president of Oklahoma A. & M., head of President Truman's Point Four program for aid to underdeveloped countries; in the crash of an Egyptian Airlines plane during a snowstorm; near Teheran, Iran. The son of an Arkansas Baptist minister, Bennett made A. & M. the big, prosperous school it is today; an expert agriculturist, he served last year as advisor to Ethiopia's Haile Selassie.

Died. Paul Henderson, 67, Kansas-born non-flying "father of airmail service," who, as second Assistant Postmaster General (1922-25), organized the first coast-to-coast airmail run, pioneered in the development of light signals to make night flying possible, retired to work as an official of National Air Transport, Inc.; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Allan M. Hirsh, 73, Virginia-born sewer-pipe manufacturer with an old claim to fame: as a college sophomore (Yale '01), he wrote Boola-Boola, the football song; in Manhattan.

Died. Arthur Capper, 86, onetime governor of Kansas (1915-19), longtime Republican U.S. Senator (1919-49), publisher (Capper's Farmer, Household); of pneumonia; in Topeka, Kans. Starting as a typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate at 83.

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