Born. To Vera Zorina (Brigitta Hartwig Lieberson), 32, Berlin-born Norwegian prima ballerina turned musicomedienne (I Married an Angel, Louisiana Purchase), and Goddard Lieberson, 38, vice president and member of the board of directors of Columbia Records, Inc.: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Sears. Weight: 6 lbs. 2 oz.

Born. To James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 40, hulking (6 ft. 8 in., 250-lb.), clowning governor of Alabama, and Jamelle Moore Folsom, 22, former secretary in the Alabama State Highway Department: their first child (he has two daughters by his first wife who died in 1944), a son; in Montgomery, Ala. Name: James Elisha Jr. Weight: 8 lbs. 6 oz.

Married. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, onetime boy prodigy of the educational world, who became president of the University of Chicago at 30 and chancellor (a specially created post) in 1945; and Vesta Sutton Orlick, 31, his secretary at Encyclopedia Britannica, where he heads the board of editors; each for the second time; in Washington Heights, Ill.

Died. Neysa McMein Baragwanath, sixtyish, magazine-cover illustrator (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McCall's) and portrait artist whose Manhattan studio was once a famed meeting place for artists and writers (Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, the late Ring Lardner, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott); following an operation; in Manhattan.

Died. Sam Breadon, 72, longtime president of the St. Louis Cardinals, who ran his original $200 investment to some $3,000,000 by the time he sold his stock in 1947 after 30 years; of cancer; in St. Louis. Breadon (and onetime associate Branch Rickey) built up the far-flung Cardinal chain system (at one time they owned 16 farm teams, had working agreements with twelve others), which paid off handsomely: Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen a funeral and did not want one for himself, requested that he be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Mississippi River.

Died. Sir John Alexander Hammerton, 78, British journalist, author (In the Track of R. L. Stevenson, 1909; With Northcliffe in Fleet Street, 1932) and editor of many a large-scale reference work (Punch Library of Humour, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia, Harmsworth History of the World), who offered a -L-1,000,000 reward in 1940 to any American who would bring Hitler "alive or still breathing" to his office within 30 days; in London.

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