Born. To Jeanne Crain, 40, still lovely, still married screen redhead (Guns of the Timberland), and Paul Brinkman, 47, radio manufacturer: their seventh child, fourth son; in Santa Monica.

Married. Helen Sobel, 56, onetime chorus girl turned bridge master, Charles Goren's favorite partner and with him winner of 32 major championships since 1939; and Stanley Smith, 50, Detroit accountant; her third heart bid, his second; in Detroit.

Died. Neil Perrins, 49, sixth-generation head of saucemaking Lea & Perrins, whose 1837 formula for Worcestershire Sauce was brought from India by the third Baron Sandys and is still mixed behind locked doors; aboard his yacht in Lewis Island, Outer Hebrides.

Died. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren, 49, shy, handsome daughter of the late Du Pont Director Eugene, great-great-granddaughter of Company Founder Eleuthere Irenee and heiress to a $5 million share in the chemical fortune, whose spectacular 1937 marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (among the 1,300 guests: some 600 Du Ponts, 200 Roosevelts, President F.D.R., virtually the entire U.S. Cabinet) brought a lasting truce between the two bitterly warring families, but was itself a failure ending in a 1949 divorce, after which she embarked on another unhappy marriage, grew increasingly depressed and spent frequent periods in rest homes; by her own hand (she was found hanging by her braided bathrobe belt from a shower-curtain rod); in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.

Died. David Smith, 59, noted U.S. metal sculptor, a onetime auto assembly-line welder who made an art of his trade with huge (up to 20 ft. tall), generally abstract creations, welding together metal bars, sheets, wheels, gears and grilles in a brilliant use of open form that, while long underestimated by the buying public, won him ranking by critics among such better-known sculptors as Calder, Moore and Giacometti; of a fractured skull suffered in an auto accident; in Albany, N.Y.

Died. Anton R. Zhebrak, 64, Soviet geneticist best known for his work on wheat hybridization, who was deposed in 1947 by Stalin's pet scientist Trofim Lysenko for insisting that hereditary characteristics cannot be modified by environment, but was since exonerated and accorded a glowing Pravda obituary ("A fine Communist, whose words never differed from his deeds"); in Moscow.

Died. Robert Watson, 77, actor, best known as the screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood.

Died. Joseph Clark Grew, 84, U.S.

Ambassador to Japan from 1931 until Pearl Harbor, whose warnings went unheeded; in Manchester, Mass, (see THE NATION).

Died. General Thomas Holcomb, 85, commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 until his retirement in 1944 and the first marine to attain four-star rank, a World War I hero at Chateau-Thierry (Navy Cross, Purple Heart) who whipped the corps into shape, increasing its manpower from 17,000 to 350,000 while maintaining its fabled esprit despite the highest casualty rate of any service (25% at Guadalcanal, 20% at Tarawa); of calcific aortitis; in New Castle, Del.

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