Milestones: Oct. 7, 1929

Born. To their Imperial Majesties Empress Nagako and Emperor Hirohito of Japan; a third daughter; at Tokyo. (See p. 30.)

Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston.

Sued for Divorce. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, grandson of late great John Pierpont Morgan;...

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