Milestones: Sep. 21, 1962

Born. To Ingmar Bergman, 44, Sweden’s master of metaphysical cinema, and his fourth wife, Kabi Laretei. 40, an Estonian-born pianist: their first child (his sixth), a son; in Stockholm.

Married. Janet Leigh, 35, grade A profile in Hollywood grade B pictures; and Robert Lee Brandt. 35. stockbroking Beverly Hills squire; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Las Vegas’ Sands Hotel the day after she obtained a quickie Mexican divorce from Actor Tony Curtis.

Died. Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, Lithuanian-born psychiatrist and Soviet master spy convicted of 20 years of espionage in the U.S.; five days after he gulped down barbiturates in a last desperate gamble to avoid returning to the U.S. and life imprisonment; in London’s Hillington Hospital.

Died. Edmund Duffy, 63, sharp-witted editorial cartoonist, mostly for the Baltimore Sun (1924-48) and the Saturday Evening Post (1949-57), whose portfolio of some 8.000 drawings included three that won him Pulitzer prizes (1931, ’34, ’40); after a long illness; in Manhattan. Duffy insisted that the “best cartoons are against something,” caricatured the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler and Communism with such blunt and angry lines that one critic wrote, “If the pen is mightier than the sword, then Duffy’s grease pencil is more effective than a well-aimed brick.”

Died. William Warwick Corcoran, 78, an adventurous Washington. D.C. socialite who squandered his inheritance by the age of 30, joined the French Foreign Legion in 1916 and the U.S. Foreign Service in 1920, where later, as a wartime consul in neutral Sweden, he earned the U.S.’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, for personal espionage that pinpointed Nazi Germany’s V-2 rocket bases at Peenemünde; of a heart attack; in San Diego’s U.S. Naval Hospital.

Died. Pat Rooney II. 82. vaudeville’s ageless song and dance man who bucked and winged from the gaslight era’s Tony Pastor’s to his last Broadway performance in Guys and Dolls; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Enchanted as a child by the hurdy-gurdies of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the leprechaun-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) hoofer endeared himself to three generations with his delivery of The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady, his tapping brogans keeping the beat for his gentle Irish brogue.

Died. Rollin Henry White. 90. pioneer Ohio automaker who in 1899 developed a flash boiler that propelled White Steamers down the highway just two years after the famed Stanleys, in 1906 helped found White Motor Co., the U.S.’s largest independent truck manufacturer; in Hobe Sound, Fla.