Born. To Edie Adams, 39, ever-lovely nightclub comedienne and cinemactress, widow of the late Comic Ernie Kovacs, and Marty Mills, 41, a freelance photographer: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles.

Married. Erie Stanley Gardner, 79, master of the mysteries (more than 150 million Perry Mason and other books printed to date); and Agnes Jean Bethell, sixtyish, his secretary for 40 years; both for the second time; in Washoe Valley, Nev.

Died. J. R. Cominsky, 69, longtime publisher of the Saturday Review and vice president since 1961 of its parent, McCall Corp.; of a heart attack; in Asbury Park, N.J. Acting against the advice of friends, Cominsky in 1942 took on the small, impoverished Saturday Review of Literature, revamped its advertising, helped enlarge its editorial content and agreed to a merger with McCall in 1961--all of which boosted circulation to nearly 600,000 copies a year, 15 times that of 1942.

Died. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, 71, Soviet military hero, victor in the incredibly tenacious defenses of Moscow and Stalingrad during World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. A Pole by birth, a Communist and Russian by inclination, Rokossovsky commanded 1,000,000 men at one point, and though his losses were staggering, inflicted such casualties on the Wehrmacht that the entire course of the war was changed. Somewhat less glorious was his conduct in August 1944, when, under Stalin's orders, he refused aid to the embattled Poles during the Warsaw uprising, stood blandly by while the Germans destroyed much of the city.

Died. Alfred Lester Cornwell, 84, former president (1946-54) and chairman (1951-56) of the F.W. Woolworth Co., who supervised the greatest growth in the firm's history; in Brookfield, Conn. "I have seen the company go from the age of the Stanley Steamer to the jet," said Cornwell on his retirement, and so he had, starting out as a stock boy in 1905 and climbing all the rungs to the top. He started the move into suburbia and expanded into South America, thereby boosting annual sales from $477 million to $700 million by the time he was ready to step down.

Died. Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, 87, widow of the West Coast sugar heir, and art patroness, who gave San Francisco one of its finest museums; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Inspired by Paris' Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mrs. Spreckels built her own $4,000,000 Legion of Honor art museum in 1924 and stocked it with one of the largest collections of Rodins outside France.

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