Milestones, Sep. 18, 1944

Born. To Julian Denegal Steele, 37, Harvard-educated Negro director of South Boston's Armstrong-Hemenway Foundation settlement house; and Mary Bradley Dawes Steele, 36, onetime Back Bay socialite, child welfare worker; their first child, a daughter. Name: Emily. Weight: 6 lbs., 14 oz.

Married. Carolyn Anne Davis, 19, only daughter of OWI Chief Elmer Davis; and Lieut. Morris Kaplan, 34, newswriter, medically discharged from the Army after service with the Transportation Corps in England; in Washington.

Married. Sir Thomas Beecham, 65, goateed maestro; and his second wife, Betty Humby Beecham, 36; for the second time, in a courtroom ceremony, to cover technicalities of British divorce...

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