Born. To Lieut. Richard Stanley Musial, 23, son of the St. Louis Cardinals' 42-year-old slugger, and Sharon Edgar Musial, 19: their first child, a son; in Fort Riley, Kans. (see SPORT).

Born. To Mickey Rooney, 42, balding, bespectacled, bankrupt Hollywood cinemite and Barbara Ann Rooney, 26, his fifth wife: their fourth child, third daughter (Mickey has three sons from previous marriages); in Santa Monica.

Married. Elizabeth Berlin, 26, youngest daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, who at 75 flew across the Atlantic to give the bride away; and Edmund Boyd Fisher, 24, son of British Ornithologist James Fisher; in London.

Died. Gail Whitney Stur, 24, daughter of Millionaire Sportsman C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney, 1956 deb-of-the-year, who splashed into headlines at 18 with a surprise engagement to 34-year-old Oil Heir Richard Cowell, cancelled it when Daddy objected only to elope with Cowell, divorced him at 20, and finally settled down at Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho as the wife of the assistant manager; of leukemia; in Manhattan.

Died. Leslie Abraham Hyam, 62, president since 1953 of Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a London-born patrician who helped found the art auction house in 1937, taking as his fields Chinese jade, French furniture and English flower painting; of a heart attack; in Canaan, Conn.

Died. James Aloysius Walsh, 76, president (1931-52) and chairman (from 1952 until this year) of the $110 million Armstrong Rubber Co., a company about to go out of business until Walsh and a friend bought control, pumped it up to the point where it ranks as the country's fifth biggest tire producer, though no automakers use Armstrongs as original equipment; of a heart ailment; in West Haven, Conn.

Died. Claude Moore Fuess, 78, longtime (1933-48) headmaster of Andover, the country's premier prep school, able biographer of Americans from Daniel Webster to Caleb Cushing, a razor-witted English teacher who broadened the curriculum (less Latin, more history) but preferred teaching, which he regarded as "an art, not a science"; of a heart ailment; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. William Martin ("Willie") Heston, 85, oldtime grid star at the University of Michigan, a halfback who scored 92 touchdowns from 1901 to 1904, led the unbeaten Wolverines to 42 victories, and in the days when Harvard and Yale ruled the roost, became the first non-Ivy Leaguer to make All-America; of kidney disease; in Traverse City, Mich.

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