Milestones, Dec. 25, 1939

Born. To Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 20, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000), and Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 25, tin-plate heir ($9,000,000); their first child, a daughter: Sandra Emerson, tin-Bromo heiress (7 Ib. 7 oz.).

Born. To Prince Alexis Obolensky II, 25, Manhattan cafe socialite, Russian nobleman once removed, and Princess Obolensky (Jane Wheeler Irby), 23, New Orleans socialite: their first child, a daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: Ann. Weight: 7 Ib. 2 oz.

Married. Raymond Wilmarth Ickes,

27, Assistant U. S. Attorney in New York, son of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes;...

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