Born. To Frederick R. ("Ted") Schroeder Jr., 26, high-strung onetime U.S. tennis singles champ (1942), whose record-breaking 71-game match against Australia's Dinny Pails clinched the Davis Cup for the U.S. last year, and Anne de Windt Schroeder, 24: their second child, second son; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Richard Frederick. Weight: 6 lbs. 9 oz.

Born. To Joan Bennett, 38, cinemadventuress (The Macomber Affair), and third husband Walter Wanger, Hollywood producer (The Long Voyage Home): their second, her fourth daughter; in Los Angeles. Weight: 6 lbs. 4 oz.

Married. Mary Ellin Berlin, 21, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin; and Dennis Sheedy Burden, 28, Newport and Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan.

Married. James McCauley Landis, 48, lantern-jawed onetime dean of the Harvard Law School, Roosevelt brain-truster (chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission), wartime head of the Office of Civilian Defense, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board until last December; and Dorothy Purdy Brown, 39, his ex-secretary; each for the second time; in Potomac, Md.

Divorced. By Jane Wyman, 34, button-nosed cinemactress (The Yearling, The Lost Weekend) who recently got the nod for having "the loveliest legs in the U.S.": third husband Ronald Reagan, 36, cinemactor (The Voice of the Turtle); after 8 1/2 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Albert Jesse Browning, 48, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., wartime director of purchases for the U.S. Army; of a heart ailment; in Detroit.

Died. Leonid Konstantinovich Ramzin, 61, Soviet engineer, chief defendant in the notorious 1930 Industrial Party trial; after long illness; in Moscow. Tried before Andrei Vishinsky, Ramzin dutifully "confessed" that, together with Winston Churchill, ex-French Premiers Poincare and Briand, he and his fellow "wreckers" were planning a military attack on the U.S.S.R. After his death sentence had been commuted to ten years' imprisonment, Ramzin's inventions won him freedom (1932), the Order of Lenin and the 150,000-ruble Stalin Prize (1943).

Died. Alexis Felix du Pont, 69, shy director and onetime vice president (1919-46) of the Du Pont munitions and chemical empire; of a heart ailment; in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He entered the family business in 1900, played a major role in the Senate's noisy 1934 investigation of the company's war profits.

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