Born. To Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 33, who on July 17, 1938 took off solo from Brooklyn, headed (said he) for Los Angeles, alighted in Ireland, and Elizabeth Marvin Corrigan, 33: a 6-lb. son, their first; in Los Angeles.

Adopted. By Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32: a four-month-old girl; to be called Christina.

Engaged. Joseph D. McGoldrick, 38, chubby Comptroller of New York City; and Helen Cahalane, 27, advertising director (John-Frederics hats) and onetime radio scriptwriter.

Engaged. Buster Keaton, stone-faced funnyman, 43; and Dancer Eleanor Ruth Morris, 21; in Los Angeles. Said Keaton, already twice divorced: "I feel like smiling, but the studio won't allow it--not in public, anyway."

Separated. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, 44; and his third wife, Singer Hannah Williams Dempsey: after seven years of marriage; in Manhattan. Mrs. Dempsey plans to sing in a Boston nightclub. Said Dempsey: "I wish her all the luck in the world."

Divorced. Sportswoman Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 34; from Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 35; after ten years of marriage; in Reno.

Missing. Lord Frederick Cambridge, 32, captain in the Coldstream Guards, first cousin to King George VI; somewhere in northern France.

Died. Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olav Hohenzollern, 33, first lieutenant of infantry in the German Army, favorite grandson of the ex-Kaiser; of an abdominal wound received while fighting in Flanders; in a military hospital near Brussels.

Died. Emanuel Hertz, 69, Austrian-born lawyer; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. His studies (The Hidden Lincoln) based on the private papers of Lincoln's fiery law partner, William Herndon, made him an outstanding Lincoln authority.

Died. Brigadier General Otto Herbert Falk, 74, onetime Adjutant General of the Wisconsin National Guard, chairman of the board of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (heavy machinery), twice chosen Milwaukee's "outstanding citizen"; of heart disease; in Milwaukee.

Died. Karl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam, 80, Swedish poet and novelist, Nobel Prizewinner (1916), who revolted against literary pessimism, wrote nationalist epics (The Charles Men) glorifying war; in Stockholm.

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