Born. To Cary Grant, 62, Hollywood's still-leading man (Walk, Don't Run), and Dyan Cannon, 28, sometime actress, his fourth wife: Cry's first child, a daughter; in Burbank, Calif.

Married. Leonard K. Firestone, 58, son of the late rubber magnate, Harvey S. Firestone, and intended victim of an abortive multimillion-dollar kidnap plot two months ago; and Barbara Knickerbocker Heatley, 50, widow of a San Francisco banker; both for the second time; in Carmel, Calif.

Divorced. By Zsa Zsa Gabor, 43, sometime actress, alltime coquette: Herbert Loeb Hutner, 57, Husband No. 4, a Manhattan industrialist; on grounds of incompatibility; after three years of marriage; no children; in Juarez, Mexico. He gave Zsa Zsa two pearl necklaces; she gave him her Rolls plus a whistle "in the event he ever needs me," then flew to Santa Monica to take out a marriage license with prospective No. 5, Dallas Oilman Joshua Cosden Jr.

Died. Elliot M. See Jr., 38, civilian astronaut slated to command next May's Gemini 9 mission; with his capsule copilot, Air Force Major Charles A. Bassett II, 34, in the crash of their T-38 jet trainer at St. Louis' Lambert Field (see THE NATION).

Died. Burris Jenkins Jr., 69, editorial cartoonist since 1931 for the New York Journal-American, a minister's son who liked to say that "cartoonists are just frustrated preachers," proved his point with such pieces as his 1957 sketch of Uncle Sam as Little Rock's "New Cop on the Beat" and other drawings aimed at foes from Klansmen to Castro; of a heart attack; in Hollywood, Fla.

Died. Joseph Albert Fields, 71, Broadway playwright and brother of Lyricist Dorothy (Sweet Charity) Fields, a one time screenwriter who in 1940 teamed with Jerome Chodorov to adapt stories for the stage, turned out such comedies as My Sister Eileen and Junior Miss, later wrote the librettos for hit musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (with Anita Loos) and Flower Drum Song (with Oscar Hammerstein); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

Died. Hugh Baillie, 75, longtime (1935-55) president of United Press, a hotly competitive wire-service man who started as a police reporter and sportswriter, later ran his 197 worldwide bureaus with a drill sergeant's bark; of heart disease; in La Jolla, Calif. Baillie put snap in U.P.'s once-stodgy reporting, telling war correspondents to "get the smell of warm blood into your copy," while scoring himself such notable beats as an exclusive interview with Hitler in 1935 and an unprecedented reply from Stalin in 1946 to cabled questions on cold war aims.

Died. William Frawley, 79, character actor, an oldtime vaudevillian who had played in more than 100 movies and Broadway shows before finding instant fame in the '50s as irascible Landlord Fred Mertz in TV's I Love Lucy, where he stayed for all 214 episodes, though he soon found the show "like eating stew every night--stale and not a bit funny"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. The Rev. Charles Clayton Morrison, 91, one of U.S. Protestantism's most vigorous voices, a onetime Chicago pastor (Disciples of Christ) who as longtime (1908-47) editor of the Christian Century, turned the tiny (circ. 600) weekly into the country's most influential Protestant journal (circ. 40,000) with crisp editorials that scourged old-style evangelism and called for unity to keep the church from "going to seed in sectarianism"; of pneumonia; in Chicago.

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