Born. To Edith Kingdon Gould Martin, 37, great-granddaughter of "Robber Baron" Jay Gould, sometime child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), World War II lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, and Guy Martin, 47, lawyer: their first daughter, fourth child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Edith Maria Theodosia Burr. Weight: 5 lbs. 9 oz.

Married. Lee Ann Meriwether, 22, brunette Miss America of 1955, drama student and TV actress; and Frank Aletter, 32, actor (Bells Are Ringing); in San Francisco.

Redivorced. By Marie ("The Body") McDonald, thirtyish, cinemactress whose widely disbelieved abduction attracted publicity last year: Harry Karl, fortyish, shoe manufacturer; after two marriages (1947-54 and since June 1955), three children (two adopted); in San Fernando, Calif.

Died. Estelle Taylor, 58, oldtime sultry cinemactress (Don Juan), onetime (1925-31) wife of Heavyweight Jack Dempsey; of cancer; in Hollywood.

Died. John S. Coleman, 60, president of Burroughs Corp. and onetime (1956-57) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Under his leadership, Burroughs developed from a maker of adding machines to a diversified company pioneering the field of electronic computation.

Died. "Diamond Jim" Moran (real name: James Brocato), 61, New Orleans restaurateur, onetime prizefighter, bodyguard of Governor Huey Long, flashy-dressing sporting figure who liked to show up at such events as the Kentucky Derby wearing diamonds from head to toe, including diamond-studded teeth and a few carats on the zipper of his pants; of a heart attack; in New Orleans.

Died. William Kerr Scott, 61, Democratic Senator from North Carolina, onetime (1949-53) governor of North Carolina and (1937-48) state commissioner of agriculture; of a heart attack; in Burlington, N.C. The tobacco-chewing "Squire of Haw River" (where he ran a 200-head dairy farm) drew his political strength from the rural vote, solidified his farm popularity during his term as governor by pushing through a bond issue that financed the paving of 14,810 miles of rural roads, chivied power companies until they strung 21,000 miles of new electric lines. Liberal Scott thought North Carolina was "shortchanging" its Negro citizens, appointed the first Negro member of the state board of education.

Died. Frank Kent, 80, Baltimore Sun and syndicated columnist (The Great Game of Politics), author (Political Behavior, A History of the Democratic Party); of uremic poisoning; in Baltimore. Kent was a registered Democrat, but his column--which at its peak in the '30s ran in well over 100 papers--was bitterly anti-New Deal, involved him in several celebrated controversies, e.g., with Harry Hopkins, to whom Kent attributed the statement: "We will tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." Kent came out strongly for Eisenhower six months before the Republican Convention of 1952, continued to write his column (weekly since 1947) until Jan. 5 of this year.

Died. General Maurice Gamelin, 85, commander of combined Anglo-French forces in France at the outbreak of World War II; in Paris. Removed from his command after the German breakthrough and blamed for the army's ignominious showing, Gamelin was tried by the Vichy puppets for inefficiency, later interned by the Germans at Buchenwald, lived out the days of peace in quiet retirement near Paris.

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