Born. To Jean Simmons, 27. hazel-eyed British-born film actress (Guys and Dolls), and tall, wavy-maned Stewart Granger, 43 (real name: James Stewart), British-born cinemactor (Bhowani Junction): their first child (his third), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tracy (for Actor Spencer Tracy). Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Guy Mitchell. 29. (real name: Al Cernik), beefy songbird of films (Red Garters) and records; and blonde Else Sorensen, 22, Danish-born cupcake who wore only a smile and a spray of roses when she posed for Playboy magazine's September Playmate (see PRESS); he for the second time, she for the first; in Bay St. Louis, Miss.

Married. Robert Carl ("Zup") Zuppke, 77, German-born pig farmer, landscape painter and Katzenjammer-brogued longtime (1913-41) football coach of the University of Illinois, mentor of Red Grange, winner of five Big Ten championships, two ties; and Leona P. Ray, his housekeeper for 23 years; he for the second time, she for the first; in Champaign, Ill.

Died. William Avery (Billy) Bishop, 62, stocky, sandy-haired Canadian Hying ace who shot down 72 planes* during World War I, collected a chestful of medals (including Britain's Victoria Cross. France's Croix de guerre), later became an oil-firm vice president, was named honorary air marshal of Canada while recruiting flyers during World War II; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Palm Beach, Fla. Billy Bishop scorned stunt flying, grimly dived his single-seat Nieuport Scout to within 50 yards of his prey before firing a short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down 47 planes in his first five months of battle, made a hero's tour of Britain, Canada and the U.S., returned to down 25 more Germans in twelve days, five of them in a flamboyant two-hour curtain brawl after he had received orders to return to London.

Died. Archibald Montgomery Low, 68. whimsical, wide-ranging British physicist, rocket expert, inventor and author, who in 1914 demonstrated a primitive form of television, three years later designed the first guided missile, went on to invent a device to photograph sound, a system of radio torpedo control, a drop-proof cigarette ash and a golf putter that lit up when swung correctly, turned out some 30 books of history, science prophecy, weapons development and scientific theory; of a lung ailment; in London.

Died. Archbishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, 75, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., who as a young rector in Oregon was named chairman of the state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy.

Died. Dr. Benjamin Minge Duggar, 84, longtime (1927-43) professor of physiology and economic botany at the University of Wisconsin, who was forced by university regulations to retire at 70, took a research job with a drug firm, four years later (1948) announced the discovery of the multi-purpose antibiotic aureomycin; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Homer Stille Cummings, 86, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), pince-nezed, onetime (1933-39) U.S. Attorney General and New Deal workhorse, three-term (between 1900 and 1906) mayor of Stamford, Conn., who in 1933 was picked by President-elect Franklin Roosevelt to govern the Philippine Islands, became Attorney General instead when F.D.R.'s choice for that post, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, died before the inauguration, went on to win New Deal court fights on the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission, lost cases defending the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, National Recovery Administration, fought bitterly for the Administration's unsuccessful "court-packing" bill (which sought to allow the President to appoint another Supreme Court member for each justice older than 70, with a 15-member limit), battled crime by strengthening the FBI, extending its jurisdiction to kidnaping, racketeering cases; in Washington.

* Three men downed more: Germany's Baron Manfred von Richthofen, 80; France's Rene Fonck, 75; and Ireland's Edward Mannock, 73.

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