Born. To Red Skelton, 33, slap-happy radio and cinema comic, and ex-Starlet Georgia Maureen Davis, 25, his second wife (No. 1, Edna Borzage, is still his manager): their first child, a girl; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Valentina Marie. Weight: 7 Ibs. n oz.

Born. To Bette Davis, 39, high-strung cinemactress, and Painter (ex-boxer) William Grant Sherry, 32, her third husband: her first child, a girl, on May Day, which Bette chose for her Caesarian section; in Santa Ana, Calif. Name: Barbara Davis Sherry. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry J. (Bob) Topping, 33, tin-plate heir; she for the fifth time (her second: Dan Topping, brother of the current groom), he for the third; in Miami Beach.

Married. Adele Astaire (Lady Charles Cavendish), 47, bubbly, onetime dancing partner of brother Fred; and Kingman Douglass, 51, Manhattan investment broker; both for the second time (her No. i, from whom she got her title, died in 1944); in Warrenton, Va.

Died. Dr. William Moulton Marston, 53, Manhattan psychologist and developer (1915) of the systolic (blood) pressure "Lie Detector"; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A man who never underestimated women, Marston wrote a successful comic strip called Wonder Woman (a sexy female counterpart of Superman); once announced that brunettes are more amorous than blondes; averred that in 1,000 years women would be running the U.S.

Died. Martin John Insull, 77, after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. In 1934 he was acquitted with brother Samuel (who died of a heart attack in a Paris subway station in 1938) of charges of embezzlement that allegedly caused the 1932 collapse of their fabulous $2 billion Middle West Utility Co. British subject Insull was subsequently deported to Canada, where, until his death, he lived in modest obscurity.

Died. Irving Fisher, 80, bearded Yale professor of political economy and prolific writer on economics; in Manhattan. A tireless theorist on such varied subjects as health, education, prohibition, and the mastication of food, he spent $100,000 (partly from his invention of the rotary filing system) campaigning to standardize the dollar and to force banks to keep a 100% cash balance for all funds liable to transfer by check.

Died. Sir Almroth Wright, 85, whose development (in 1896) of typhoid vaccine saved countless thousands of lives; at Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England.

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