Milestones, Nov. 15, 1937

Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 22, of the tobacco dynasty, and Priscilla St. George Duke, 18, married last January; a son. As the child was born, pretty Grandmother Mrs. George B. St. George, granddaughter of late Banker George F. Baker and first cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt, was romping to a blue ribbon on three-gaited Silver Fox in Manhattan's National Horse Show (see p. 61).

Birthday. Ida Minerva Tarbell, last of the original "muckrakers," who made her name by her book, History of the Standard Oil Co. (1904); her 80th; in Manhattan. Last...

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