Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 33, former chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee, who resigned last week after three years of tireless probing, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 31: their seventh child, third daughter; in Washington. Name: Mary Kerry. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 26, member of the New York investment banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., son of onetime (1942-54) New York Governor and twice-defeated Republican Presidential Candidate Tom Dewey; and Ann Reynolds Lawler, 22, daughter of an attorney; in Scarborough, N.Y.

Divorced. Whitelaw Reid, 46, onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; by Joan Brandon, 29, whose mother, Dorothy Brandon, was a Washington-bureau staff member of the Herald Tribune; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Reno.

Died. Paul Douglas, 52, sometime professional football player and radio announcer turned actor, who vaulted to Hollywood stardom (A Letter to Three Wives, Executive Suite) through his Broadway portrayal of the bumptious racketeer in Born Yesterday; of a heart attack; in Hollywood.

Died. Gilbert Adrian, 56, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's head dressmaker for a dozen years, husband of Hollywood's first Oscar-winning actress, Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven); of a stroke; in Hollywood. For more than a decade Adrian set the pace for women's fashions across the U.S. and even to Paris, made Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that any right-thinking woman would have given her eyeteeth for.

Died. Frank Comerford Walker, 73, portly, tight-lipped movie-house owner and the third of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four Catholic national chairmen (1943-44), who began his political career by donating $10,000 to F.D.R.'s 1928 gubernatorial campaign, as a watchful Postmaster General (1940-45) tried to revoke Esquire Magazine's second-class mailing privileges because of its spicy contents; in Manhattan.

Died. Edmund Gwenn, 83, British-born actor who for the last couple of decades invariably played the roles of kindly, puckish old men, won the 1947 Academy Award for best supporting actor as a benign Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street, was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw, who cast him in many of his plays in the early 1900s; in Woodland Hills, Calif.

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