Born. To Betty Hutton, 27, galvanic cinecomedienne, and Theodore Briskin, 30, Chicago cameramaker: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Barbara. Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz.

Married. Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd, 21, adopted daughter of ex-Slapsticker Harold Lloyd; and Almon Bartlett Ross Jr., 24; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. John Christmas Moeller, 54, tiny gamecock of the Danish resistance, prewar Minister of Commerce (1940), postwar Foreign Minister (1945); of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. Moeller helped establish the underground, then escaped to Britain in 1942 to head the Free Danish Movement. He negotiated an agreement with Britain whereby the R.A.F. spared Danish towns from saturation bombing so long as Danish patriots stuck to a busy schedule of blowing up factories.

Died. Arthur Prince, 66, British ventriloquist, round-the-world trouper for 43 years; of a liver ailment; in London. He asked that his bluejacketed dummy, "Sailor Jim," be buried with him.*

Died. Dr. Rupert Blue, 79, onetime Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (1912-20), who wiped out two bubonic-plague epidemics in San Francisco by getting rid of the carriers (flea-infested rats and ground squirrels); in Charleston, S.C.

Died. Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 80, Hirohito's Polonius and Premier on V-J day; of a liver ailment; in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. A cautious navyman, lie was hated as a "moderate" by the military jingoists, who left him for dead in the 1936 young-officer insurrection, hounded him into hiding after the 1945 surrender.

Died. Carrie May Brodhead Wallace, 80, mother of Presidential Candidate Henry (and five other sons and daughters), widow of Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture (1921-24); after long illness; in Des Moines.

Died. Dr. Alfred Church Lane, 85, bearded onetime Tufts College geologist (1909-36), who in 1932 announced his results in measuring the age of the earth by the decomposition of uranium minerals, thus helped establish its now accepted age of two billion years; in Manhattan.

* In 1908 Prince & Sailor Jim panicked Manhattan's Palace (at $1,000 a week) with patter like this:

NAVAL LIEUTENANT (Prince): "New York is a wonderful place. They know what happens just as soon as we do."

SAILOR JIM: "Do they know that I have to scrub the deck at 4 in the morning?"

LIEUTENANT: "I mean important things."

SAILOR: "Then that is not important?"

LIEUTENANT: "Of course not!"

SAILOR: "Very well. I shan't do it!"

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