Born. To Mimi Benzell, 33, bubbling former Metropolitan Opera soprano turned supper club and TV singer, and Concert Manager Walter A. Gould: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Jennifer Alicia. Weight: 5 Ibs. 12 oz.

Married. Nanette Fabray, 36. TV singer, dancer and actress (Caesar's Hour, 1954-56); and Ranald MacDougall, 42, movie writer and director; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Harrison Freeman ("Doc") Matthews. 57, U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands (awaiting reassignment in June), one of the U.S.'s four original "five-star diplomats"* and a 33-year career veteran; and Helen J. Skouland, 58. career member of the Foreign Service; both for the second time; in Zurich.

Died. Duke (born Russell T.) Shoop, 53, political reporter, war correspondent, longtime (since 1933) Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star; of a liver ailment; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Nils Thor ("N.T.G.") Granlund, 57, lanky girlie-show producer and one of America's first popular radio announcers (on Theaterman Marcus Loew's station WHN, opened in 1922) ; of injuries suffered in an auto accident; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Rear Admiral Edward Joseph ("Mike") Moran, U.S.N., 63, jut-jawed World War II captain of the light cruiser Boise, who won fame for his part in the 1942 night battle of Cape Esperance, off Guadalcanal (he ordered on contact: "Pick out the biggest one and fire!"), in which half a dozen Japanese warships were sunk in 27 minutes of close-range shelling; in Paris.

Died. John Francis Curry. 83, Tammany Hall boss from 1929 to 1934 when fellow committee members had to oust him after a prestige-devastating series of defeats, e.g., backing Al Smith against Franklin D. Roosevelt for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination; in Coral Gables, Fla.

Died. George Rublee, 88, international lawyer, adviser to Presidents Wilson, Coolidge. Hoover and Roosevelt, whose last high-level public service--arranging emigration and resettlement of Jews from Nazi Gerrnany--was frustrated by the outbreak of war; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Richard Swann Lull, 89, retired Yale professor of paleontology and author (Organic Evolution, Ancient Man) ; in New Haven, Conn.

*The first career ambassadors (others: Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration Loy W. Henderson, Ambassador to Brazil James Clement Dunn), Foreign Service equivalents of five-star generals, were sworn in a year ago.

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