Born. To Joan Caulfield, 36. long-legged blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth) and sometime TV star (My Favorite Husband), who seven months ago divorced Hollywood Producer Frank Ross. 55 : their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Kevin Ross. Weight: 7 Ibs. 10 oz.

Born. To Anne Jeffreys, 36, singing actress of films, stage and TV, and Actor Robert Sterling. 42, both of TV's Topper series: their third child, third son; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Tyler Marcus. Weight: 7 Ibs. 8 oz.

Married. Catherine Wood Marshall, 45, bestselling author (A Man Called Peter; Mr. Jones, Meet the Master; To Live Again), women's editor of Christian Herald Magazine, widow of the Rev. Peter Marshall, late pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed Church in America), LeSourd's editorial superior on Guideposts; in Leesburg, Va.

Married. Whitelaw Reid, 46, a director and onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; and Elizabeth Ann Brooks, 27, executive secretary of the Fairfield Foundation (which promotes international cultural exchange); he for the second time, she for the first; in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Died. George Vernon Denny Jr., 60, originator and longtime (1935-52) moderator of ABC radio's America's Town Meeting of the Air; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in West Cornwall. Conn. North Carolina-born George Denny, associate director of the League of Political Education, conceived the Town Meeting program after being told by a neighbor that he would never listen to a fireside chat because he could not stand Franklin D. Roosevelt. Denny set up Town Meeting as a forum where both sides of any issue could be heard, umpired such hagglers as Harold Ickes and No Foreign Wars Committee Chairman Verne Marshall.

Died. Charles Edward Chauvel, 62, Australian film producer who in 1931 sought an actor for a film called In the Wake of the Bounty, came upon a young vagabond sailor whose small boat had just been wrecked on a South Sea atoll, gave the late Errol Flynn his start; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Australia.

Died. Lupino Lane, 67, Briton who produced, directed and starred in Me and My Girl, the show that introduced the Lambeth Walk (and ran at London's Victoria Palace for 1,646 performances beginning in 1937), member of one of the best-known families of the British stage; following a heart attack; in London.

Died. Frank Sherman Land, 69, a Kansas City banker, onetime (1954) Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America, founder of DeMolay (the Shrine's youth organization), trustee of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.; of a pulmonary edema; in Kansas City, Mo.

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