Born. To the Earl of Dalkeith, 30, godson of the late Queen Mary, and once rumored engaged to Princess Margaret, and his countess, former Model Jane McNeill, 23: a son and heir, their first child; in Scotland. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.

Married. Peter Ustinov, 32, British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis); and Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian-born cinemactress, 25; both for the second time; in London.

Marriage Revealed. Cleveland Amory, 37, author (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts); and Martha Hodge Mc-Cormick, 37, Broadway actress and daughter of Oldtime Actor William Hodge (The Man from Home); both for the second time; in Manhattan, on New Year's Eve.

Died. Father Marie-Alain Couturier, 56, leader of a movement to bring modern art into Roman Catholic Church decoration; of complications arising from asthma and nervous paralysis; in Paris. A French Dominican friar and a onetime painter, the "Picasso priest" supervised the construction of churches at Assy, Vence, and Audincourt decorated by leading modernists (Bonnard, Miro, Rouault, Matisse).

Died. Frederick Lewis Allen, 63, author and longtime magazine editor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. As an undergraduate, Boston-born Fred Allen worked on the Harvard Lampoon staff with Robert Benchley and Cartoonist Gluyas Williams. After a couple of years of teaching, he went to the Atlantic Monthly as assistant editor, moved over to the old Century as managing editor. In 1923, he went to Harper's, from which he retired last fall after twelve years as editor in chief. Author of five books, retiring Editor Allen became a bestseller with his

Only Yesterday (750,000), a nostalgic, carefully done reprise of the racing '20s, and quietly rejoiced in the label pinned on him by one of his readers: "The Herodotus of the Jazz Age."

Died. Rear Admiral Charles Horatio ("Sock") McMorris, 63, war plans officer to Admiral Husband E. Kimmel in Pearl Harbor when it was attacked, later, after a sea tour, chief of staff to Admiral Chester Nimitz in the Pacific in the decisive days (1943-45); of a heart attack; in Valparaiso, Chile, after visiting his son.

Died. Anita McCormick Elaine, 87, heiress to International Harvester millions, daughter of Cyrus McCormick (the mechanical reaper), first cousin once removed of the Chicago Tribune's Robert Rutherford McCormick, daughter-in-law of James G. (the "Plumed Knight") Blaine; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. "Aunt Anita" gave away at least $10,000,000 of her fortune: $2.000,000 to the School of Education of the University of Chicago, $3,000,000 to help found Chicago's progressive Frances W. Parker School. In 1948 she gave $1,000,000 to start the Foundation For World Government, helped finance Henry Wallace's Progressive Party campaign, was reported to have sunk more than $2,000,000 in the late New York Daily Compass (nee PM).

Died. Bliss Perry, 93; professor emeritus of English at Harvard, author (Emerson Today, And Gladly Teach), and onetime editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1899-1909); in Exeter, N.H. A gifted teacher whose personality, enthusiasm and good humor often inspired students to applause, he told his last class when he retired in 1930: "These rambling talks have come to an end, gentlemen. I am going to read the authors."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.