Milestones, Jul. 21, 1947

Born. To Walter P. Reuther, 39, president of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and May Wolf Reuther, 36: a daughter, their third; in Detroit. Weight: 7 lbs. 10 oz.

Died. James Melvin ("Jimmie") Lunceford, 45, topnotch Negro bandleader famed for his skillful and studied renditions of warm to hot jazz; of coronary occlusion; in Seaside, Ore.

Died. Brigadier General Marlborough Churchill (Ret.), 68, during the closing months of World War I chief of U.S. Army Intelligence, distant kin of Britain's Winston; after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Robert H. Tyndall, 70, Republican mayor of Indianapolis,...

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