Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle, 50, wartime U.S. ambassador to the European governments in exile, now an Army colonel, and third wife Margaret Atkinson Loughborough Biddle, fortyish; their first child, his second, a son; in Washington. Name: Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Louis Burt Mayer, 63, durable, diamond-smooth cinemogul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's, Inc.); and Mrs. Lorena Layson Danker, 41, Hollywood widow; each for the second time (he was divorced last April after 43 years of marriage) ; in Yuma, Ariz.

Divorced. Artie Shaw, 38, bandleader: by his sixth wife, Kathleen Winsor, 30, bestselling novelist (Forever Amber); after two years of marriage, no children; in Reno.

Died. Dr. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, 54, South Africa's brilliant longtime Minister of Finance and Education, onetime Deputy Prime Minister and able lieutenant to Field Marshal Smuts; constant advocate of improved conditions for Negroes; of coronary thrombosis; in Johannesburg.

Died. George Leonard Berry, 66, wealthy president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union since 1907 and short-time Senator from Tennessee (1937-38); of a digestive disorder; in Pressmen's Home (a development he built for needy union members), Tenn. Self-educated (he could neither read nor write at 15), Berry became a key labor adviser in the Wilson and Roosevelt administrations, missed the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1924 by three votes.

Died. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 68, famed artist-journalist (mostly for the New York Times), author (Drawn from Life, Here Am I) and onetime cover artist for TIME; of lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan. Woolf scored a success with his World War I battlefield paintings, hit on the portrait-interview combination in 1927 with a story on George Bernard Shaw, went on to do some 500 for the Sunday Times.

Died. Wladyslaw Theodor Benda, 75, Polish-born magazine illustrator and maskmaker; of a heart ailment; in Newark.

Died. Frank Brett Noyes, 85, conservative co-founder (in 1900) and longtime president (1900-38) of the Associated Press, chairman of the board of the Washington Evening Star; in Washington.

Died. The Rev. John J. Wynne, S.J., 89, leading Jesuit scholar, founder and onetime editor of the famed Roman Catholic Encyclopedia (1903-14) and the Catholic weekly America (1909); in The Bronx.

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