Milestones, Jan. 15, 1945

Born. To Army Lieut. David Breger, 36, round-faced, snub-nosed model of his own much-victimized cartoon hero, "Private Breger," and Dorothy Lewis Breger, 24, his onetime art agent: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Lois Passin. Weight: 6 Ibs.

Killed in Action. Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, 61, General Eisenhower's naval commander in chief, topnotch amphibious-operations officer, who organized the evacuation from Dunkirk, planned and executed the naval phases of the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy; in a plane crash near Paris. A quiet, aloof man (nicknamed "Dynamo" by admiring associates), Ramsay refused to let Churchill watch...

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