Born. To Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hangdog clown of the Ringling Bros. Circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth), and Elveria Gebhardt. 22, onetime circus acrobat: their first child (his third), a girl; in Sarasota, Fla. Name: Stacia. Weight: 6 Ibs. 14 oz.

Married. Billy Daniels, 39, Negro nightspot singer; and blonde, Montreal-born Perrette Cameron, 23, who was hired last year as governess to his three children ("The children liked her, and so did I") he for the third time (his second: Boston Socialite Martha Braun), she for the first; in Juarez, Mexico.

Married. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionheiress; and Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46, onetime top German tennis star; she for the sixth, he for the second time; in Versailles. France (see PEOPLE).

Divorced. Victor Mature. 41, cinemactor (Chief Crazy Horse) by Dorothy

Stanford Berry, 35, his third wife; after even years of marriage, no children; in

Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. By Peter M. Churchill, 46, top British secret agent in occupied France during World War II (no kin to Sir Winston): Odette (full name: Odette Marie Celine Brailly), 43, famed Frenchborn allied spy who was arrested with Churchill by the Gestapo in 1943; after eight years of marriage; in London. Odette saved the life of Churchill (her commanding officer) by convincing the Nazis that he was only her husband who had entered spying at her insistence. She was tortured and imprisoned for two years, escaped to the U.S. lines in 1945, rejoined Churchill London, where she later married him.

Divorced. Hoagy Carmichael. 55, topnotch popular composer (Stardust, Lazy Bones), smoky-voiced singer of TV, radio

and films (Young Man with a Horn); by Ruth Meinardi, 41; after 19 years of

marriage, two children; in Santa Monica

Calif.

Died. Jerry Ross (real name: Jerold Rosenberg), 29, composer-lyricist who with Richard Adler was Broadway's hottest new songwriting team (Pajama Game, Damn Yankees); of bronchiectasis, a lung ailment; in Manhattan. Since 1950 Ross and Adler, each contributing both words and music, have turned out more than 250 songs. Notable hits: Hernando's Hideaway; Whatever Lola Wants; Hey, There; Heart.

Died. Robert Emmet Sherwood, 59, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night), historian (Roosevelt and Hopkins), top cinema writer (The Best Years of Our Lives), ghostwriter (1940-45) of some portion of every major Franklin D. Roosevelt speech-of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Martin P. Durkin, 61, Secretary of Labor (Jan. 21 to Sept. 10. 1953) and only Democrat in the Eisenhower Cabinet, president of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters union since 1943; after long illness following brain surgery; in Washington.

Died. Julia Harpman Pegler, 61, wife of Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whom she married in 1922; of a heart attack; in Rome.

Died. Germaine Corblet Coty, 69, wife of France's President Rene Coty; of a heart attack; at the President's summer residence, the Chateau de Rambouillet near Paris.

Died. Archbishop Grigory, 86, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, who visited the U.S. in 1947 in a fruitless attempt to unite the Russian Orthodox Church in North America with the church in Moscow; in Leningrad.

Died. William Spellman, 97, onetime New England grocer, father of Francis Cardinal Spellman. Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York; in Abington, Mass.

Died. Adelaide Johnson, 108, famed sculptress and oldtime suffragette, whose statue (carved from a 7 1/2 ton block of marble) of Suffragettes Susan E. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott stands in the U.S. Capitol; in Washington.

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