Born.

To Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, 45, and Crown Princess Ingrid, 34, daughter of Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf: their second daughter, second non-heir to occupied Denmark's throne ; in Stockholm.

Born. To torchy Cinemactress Alice Faye and "sweet" Orchestra Leader Phil Harris: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight: 6 lb.

Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, cafe-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year.

Married. Oscar Ulysses Zerk, 65, millionaire inventor of the Zerk-Alemite lubricating system; and Adele Zerk, 20, a filing-clerk; in Kenosha, Wis. In the Caldwell, NJ. Curtiss-Wright plant, a letter signed by Mr. Zerk attracted Miss Zerk, who wrote to inquire about the similarity in names. After two months of correspondence, Mr. Zerk phoned Miss Zerk, proposed, journeyed to Caldwell, took her home to his Kenosha estate.

Died. Humphrey Cobb, 44, author of 1935's best-selling war story (Paths of Glory); of coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington, L.I. His best-seller was his only published novel, and was written out of boredom with his Manhattan advertising job. A terse, heart-rending account of a sadistic French general who ordered his own men decimated after a hopeless attack had failed, it was adapted for the stage, got him a $1,000-a-week job in Hollywood. That also bored him, and at his death he was working for a Manhattan advertising agency.

Died. Theodore Bissell Parker, 54, one time chief engineer of TVA's 1,400 engineers, short-time head of M.I.T.'s civil engineering department; after long illness; in Wellesley, Mass.

Died. William Franklin (Frank) Knox, 70, Secretary of the Navy; of a heart attack; in Washington (see p. 14).

Left. By the late Leslie Howard, stage & screen star: to his widow, son and daughter, an estate of $251,000; to Violette Cunnington, his secretary, his Beverly Hills house. Miss Cunnington died six months before the actor was lost in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane, reportedly shot down by the Nazis.

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