Milestones, Dec. 12, 1938

Born. To Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, Great Britain's blackest fascist, and his wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public."

Married. Sally Poor Clark, 18, night-club-singing sister-in-law of John Aspinwall Roosevelt; and George Xavier McLanahan, 25, socialite; in Boston. John Roosevelt was one of...

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