Born. To Cinemactress Toby Wing, grandniece of the late Dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, and Pilot Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill: a son, their second; at Miami Beach, Fla. Last spring their first son accidentally suffocated at the age of eleven months.

Born. To Novelist Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn) and Brigadier General F. A. M. Browning: a son; in London.

Engaged. Marguerite Johnson, 32, teacher in the Rock Island, Ill. Central Junior High School; and North Dakota's isolationist junior Senator, Gerald P. Nye, 47. Senator Nye's first wife divorced him last March.

Married. John D. M. Hamilton, 48, two days after he resigned as executive director of the Republican National Committee; and Jane Kendall Mason, 30 (according to Mrs. Coolidge "the most beautiful debutante who ever entered the White House"), who last month divorced George Grant Mason Jr., member of the Civil Aeronautics Board; in Tampa, Fla.

Married. Harold Wallace Ross, 48, editor of The New Yorker; and Arianne Allen, 25, blonde model, of Beverly Hills, Calif.; she for the first time, he for the third; at Roselle Park, N. J.

Divorced. Fred Perry, pipesmoking British tennist; by Cinemactress Helen Vinson; after four years of marriage; in Los Angeles, Calif. Charged Actress Vinson: "He would argue loudly, slam doors . . . throw the furniture about . . . until 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning."

Died. Gates W. ("Silent Gates") McGarrah, 77, massive, granite-jawed financier of the old school, once chairman of the great Chase Bank's executive committee, first president of the Basel Bank of International Settlements, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the panic of '29; in Manhattan.

Died. Paul Fratellini, one of the world's greatest clowns, the solemn member of the Three Fratellinis of the Cirques d'Hiver, Medrano and other arenas; in Paris. Wrote France's Minister of the Interior when the Three Fratellinis were awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor: "I congratulate you heartily in the name of all the little children of Paris, whose joy you are, and also in the name of their lathers, those other big children, whom we call men."

Died. Daniel ("Diamond Dan") O'Rourke, 79, keeper of what was 30 years ago "the biggest and best saloon on the Bowery," manager of Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries; of heart disease; in Manhattan.

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