Milestones, May 31, 1948

Born. To Red Skelton, 34, rubber-faced, baby-talking radio and cinema comic, and second wife Georgia Maureen Davis Skelton, 26, retired starlet: their second child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Richard Freeman. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Died. George F. ("Buzz") Beurling, 26, Canada's leading wartime ace (28 Axis planes in 14 fighting days at the defense of Malta), and peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his...

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