Milestones, Sep. 20, 1948

Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 37, the Detroit Tigers' onetime home-run king, now part owner and vice president of the Cleveland Indians, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 32, department store heiress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight: 9 Ibs. 5 oz.

Married. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 20, brunette medical-student granddaughter of T.R.; and Alexander G. Barmine, ex-Soviet general turned anti-Communist author (One Who Survived); she for the first time, he for the third; in Northport, N.Y., at a wedding unattended by the bride's parents.

Married. Martha Graham, 46, deadpan high priestess of the modern dance (and radio's Miss Hush of...

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