Born. To Elizabeth Montgomery, 32, beguiling TV hex (Bewitched), and William Asher, 42, her TV director: their second child, second son, who will also play her TV baby, due to arrive in early February; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Married. Orson Bean, 36, downbeat Broadway and TV funnyman (Never Too Late, To Tell the Truth); and Carolyn Maxwell, 24, custom fashion designer; he for the second time; in Manhattan.

Marriage Revealed. Mamie Reynolds, 22, daughter of North Carolina's late Senator "Buncombe Bob" Reynolds (no relation to the tobacco family), heiress to a $35 million share of Grandmother Evalyn McLean's gold-mine and newspaper fortune (Washington Post, Cincinnati Enquirer); and Joseph Gregory, 39, Kentucky dog handler; she for the second time; in Juarez, Mexico; last month.

Divorced. By Betty Grable, 48, Hollywood's wartime pinup queen (Million Dollar Legs), now often gamboling on the Las Vegas stage (Guys and Dolls): Harry Hagg James, 49, once perhaps the world's greatest trumpet virtuoso, still tooting as a successful bandleader; on uncontested grounds of extreme cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Patrick Guinness, 34, banker son of British Financier Loel Guinness and Joan (later Princess Aly Khan) Guinness, half-brother of Aga Khan IV and since 1955 husband of Countess Dolores von Furstenberg, who also happens to be his stepsister (Dolores' mother, Gloria, married Patrick's father in 1951); of injuries sustained when his custom-built Iso-Rivolta plowed into a tree at 110 m.p.h.; near Turtig, Switzerland.

Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas,

Died. Dr. Robert Runnels Williams, 79, India-born chemist and longtime (1925-46) Bell Telephone chemical director, who in 1910 began independent research into the cause of the Orient's mysterious and killing beriberi disease, in 1934 found that the problem was a lack of thiamine, or vitamin Bl, derived from natural bran that rice-eating populations generally remove when polishing their rice; in Summit, N.J.

Died. Thomas Bertram Costain, 80, prolific author of bestselling historical novels (The Silver Chalice) and some straight popular histories, who made his career as an editor of Canada's Maclean's magazine and the Saturday Evening Post and as a story scout for 20th Century-Fox until at 55 he decided, "If I was ever going to write, I'd better start right away," produced 20 readable yet scholarly works that have sold some 15 million copies since 1942 and resulted in several movie epics; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Anton T. Boisen, 88, U.S. theologian renowned for his pioneering work in religious psychology (The Exploration of the Inner World), a Congregationalist minister whose own mental difficulties (he suffered from schizophrenia) led him in 1936 to advance the theory that "certain forms of mental disorder and religious revelation are closely interrelated"; of arteriosclerosis; in Elgin, Ill.

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