Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight: 8 Ibs.. 10 oz.

Married. Herbert Asbury, 53, historian of shady Americana (The Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, The Barbary Coast), associate editor of Collier's magazine, descendant of U.S. Methodism's first Bishop, Francis Asbury; and Edith Snyder Evans, 34, New York City Associated Press reporter; both for the second time; in Fort Lee, NJ.

Divorced. Sarah Churchill, 30, redhaired, green-eyed second daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force member, onetime vaudevillian, her father's companion at Casablanca and Yalta; by Vic Oliver, 46, U.S.-naturalized comedian, ex-Austrian baron (Victor Samek); after eight years of marriage (no children); in London.

Divorced. Staff Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, 30, deadpan heavyweight boxing champion who now sports a G.I. mustache; by Marva Trotter Barrow, 27, nightclub singer; after ten years of marriage (one child); in Chicago. She had filed suit in 1941 but dropped it a few weeks later.

Reported Missing. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, cool, slender Army chaplain credited with minting the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes," hero of a 1942 Bataan hospital bombing during which he calmed patients with prayer despite his own shrapnel-broken arm; in the sinking of a Japanese prison ship by a U.S. submarine last December.

Killed in Action. Major General Maurice Rose, 45, handsome, polo-playing commander of the Third Armored Division (First Army), pre-World War I private, recipient last month of the Distinguished Service Medal for his sweeping drives down the Normandy peninsula, which showed "inspiring leadership, tactical skill and great valor"; in Germany.

Died. Vincent ("Ben") Bendix, 62, massive, restless, auto-aero parts manufacturer, inventor of the first practical self-starter (1912), founder of Bendix Aviation Corp., president of Bendix Helicopter, Inc. (planning postwar mass production of four-passenger helicopter sedans); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Despite the vast success of his companies, personal reverses (real-estate projects, a whopping divorce settlement) sent him into bankruptcy in 1939.

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