Born. To Artur Rodzinski, 51, thick-thatched Polish-American conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra; and Halina Lilpop Rodzinski, 40, his handsome, sunny-haired second wife: their first (his second) child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Richard. Weight: 9 Ibs.

Died. Volga Haworth Cansino, 47, partner in the onetime famed Cansino dancing team until birth (Oct. 17, 1918) of Daughter Rita Hayworth, who cinemadopted her mother's maiden name; of a heart ailment; in a Santa Monica hospital.

Died. Mme. Jean Colette,* 47, longtime aide to her Polish countrywoman, Marie Curie, at the Radium Institute in Paris; from the effects of radioactivity research continued after Mme. Curie's death in 1934 from radium poisoning; in Paris.

Died. Frank R. Reid, 65, onetime Congressman from Illinois (1923 to 1934), vigorous but unsuccessful defender of the late Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell in the famed 1925 court-martial over General Mitchell's caustic criticism of the Army & Navy for a piddling aviation program; of a heart attack; in Aurora, ILL.

Died. Thomas Joseph Pendergast, 71, most notorious political boss of the century; of heart disease; in Kansas City. Son of a teamster, old "TJ." built a small Democratic ward machine in Kansas City's Italian section into a powerful and corrupt political juggernaut. He ruled Kansas City in its bawdiest, gaudiest era, hired ghost voters by the thousands, bet millions on the ponies, hand-picked Governors and Senators, started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder. Heavy-set and heavy-jowled, he was the incarnation of the cartoonists' political boss--especially when he wore a top hat. In 1939 he was caught red-handed with a whopping $430,000 bribe from insurance companies, went to jail for income-tax evasion. His empire crashed with him.

Died. Arthur Symons, 79, British litterateur who outlived the mauve elegance of his contemporaries (Wilde, Beardsley, et al.) to become a respected critic; in Wittersham, Kent, England. As a translator, he introduced to the English-speaking world the Continental refinements of Verlaine, Baudelaire, D'Annunzio. His best-received book, Confessions (1930), was an autobiographical account of an overly sensitive mind lost in Italy and recovered in a British asylum.

* Not to be confused with "Colette" (real name: Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette), authoress of purple-passionate French novels (Chert, Claudine at School, etc.).

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