Milestones, Mar. 1, 1948

Born. To Rocky Graziano, 25, hammer-fisted hoodlum of boxing, world's middle weight champion (barred from most boxing rings), and Norma Levine Graziano, 22: their second child, second daughter; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Name: Roxee Lynn. Weight: 6 lbs. 15 oz.

Died. Douglas H. Cooke, 61, onetime publisher of Leslie's Weekly, Judge, and the old Life magazine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In the '20s, he printed the chipper early works of Robert Benchley and John Held Jr., turned conservative when the magazines and the era folded, became a publisher of hospital magazines.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Clifton Daggett Gray, 73, Baptist theologian...

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