Born. To Esther Williams, 31, cinemermaid (Dangerous When Wet), and second husband Ben Gage, 36, Los Angeles restaurateur: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan. Weight: 7 Ibs. 15 oz.

Married. Joseph R. (for Raymond) McCarthy, 43. Republican Senator from Wisconsin; and Jean Fraser Kerr, 29, his research assistant for four years; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Dan McCarty, 41, Democratic governor of Florida since January, wealthy Ft. Pierce cattleman and citrus grower; following an attack of pneumonia; in Tallahassee, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Frank Munn, 58, Bronx-born tenor, "The Golden Voice of Radio" during the '30s and early '40s; of a heart attack; in New York City. A policeman's son, he learned to sing by memorizing popular recordings, mimicking what he heard. As "Paul Oliver" on radio's Palmolive Hour, he became a nationwide favorite. In 1931 he dropped the pseudonym, and, never appearing on stage or screen, became star soloist on NBC's weekly Album of Familiar Music, Waltz Time.

Died. Edwin Joseph Cohn, 60, Harvard biochemist, who explored the structure of protein, identified and isolated many life-saving components of human blood; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston (see MEDICINE).

Died. Edwin Powell Hubble, 63, noted astronomer, who first developed the theory of an expanding universe (1930); of a heart attack; in San Marino, Calif.

Died. Ernst Reuter, 64, Lord Mayor of West Berlin; of a heart ailment; in Zehlendorf (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Beatrice Ayer Patton, 67, widow of the U.S. Army's late great armor tactician, General George S. Patton Jr.; of injuries suffered in a fall from her horse; in South Hamilton. Mass. Like her husband, Beatrice Patton was an outspoken believer in the strenuous life. She wrote a historical novel (Blood of the Shark), composed band music for her husband's tank units, helped prepare his pep talks to his troops. After Patton's death in 1945, she campaigned for universal military training ("It makes Americans out of all sorts of odds and ends").

Died. George Creel, 76, America's World War I propaganda chief and jack-of-all-public-affairs; of cancer; in San Francisco. As head of World War I's Committee on Public Information, Wilsonian Democrat Creel set out to arouse the home front ("Give me two weeks . . . and I'll change the so-called mind of the American public on any given subject"). After the Armistice, Author Creel freelanced in California, ran unsuccessfully against Fellow Muckraker Upton Sinclair in 1934 gubernatorial primary, later broke with the New Deal-Fair Deal, last fall headed northern California's Democrats for Eisenhower.

Died. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 81, one of America's first women scientists, who, at Johns Hopkins, probed the mysteries of the lymphatic system and the bloodstream (1902-25), went on to investigate new methods of combating tuberculosis, and in 1944 undertook a successful revamping of Colorado's ailing public health system; of a heart attack; in Denver.

Died. John Marin, 82, famed watercolor artist, regarded by many critics as America's greatest painter; at his seaside cottage in Addison, Me. A failure as a button salesman and later as an architect, at 28 he turned to art, opened his first big Manhattan exhibition in 1909, when he was 39. Marin scorned" formal training and academic styles ("If you put on the paint right...it will tell its own story"), saw his vivid land and seascapes sell for as much as $10,000 apiece, kept hard at work until shortly before his death.

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