Born. To Martha Raye, 27, bumptious, big-mouthed Hollywood comedienne, and her fourth husband, Dancer Nick Condos, 36: their (and her) first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name Melodye. Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz.

Divorced. Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., 44, auto scion; by Martha ("Mickey") Devine Dodge, 31, ex-Vanities girl; after, four years of married high life; in Reno. The settlement (according to her attorney): "closer to a million than $500,000." This brought Dodge's total settlements, after three marriages, reputedly close to three million.

Died. Marguerite Alice ("Missy") LeHand. 47, superconfidential secretary of President Roosevelt until her retirement in 1942; of cerebral hemorrhage; during a vacation in Chelsea, Mass. Born in Potsdam, N.Y., daughter of a real-estate man, she went to Washington as a Bureau of Ordnance stenographer, first worked for Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for Vice President in 1920. Gracious, efficient "Missy" stayed on, checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down any vagrant thought. Her voting address was the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park; her home, a third floor suite of the White House.

Died. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, 65, essayist and short-story writer, wife of Princeton's English Department Chairman Professor Gordon Hall Gerould; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. A constant critic of jazz-age manners, she took time out in 1926 to cover the Dempsey-Tunney fight for Harper's Magazine.

Died. Reza Shah Pahlavi, 66, deposed Shah of Iran; in Johannesburg, South Africa. The tyrannical, miserly, violently anti-foreign builder of modern Iran, he became its dictator by military coup in 1921, "resigned" in favor of his son after the Russian-British invasion of 1941.

Died. James C. ("Bud") Mars, 68, pioneer world-touring balloonist and aviator who gave Hirohito his first plane ride in Tokyo in 1911; of heart disease; in Santa Monica, Calif. A circus high diver who learned to fly in 1908, Mars recently said of his most notable flight: "I wish we had crashed in Tokyo."

Died. Edward Bausch, 89, famed optical manufacturer (Bausch & Lomb) and inventor; after long illness; in Rochester, N.Y. His iris diaphragm shutter made the snapshot camera practical.

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