Milestones, Sep. 16, 1957

Born. To Billy Pearson, 37, pint-sized jockey, TV quiz wizard (The $64,000 Question), passionate art collector, and Queta Pearson, 38: a daughter, their first child; in San Diego. Name: Maria Christina. Weight: 6 Ibs. 14 oz.

Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 59, sometime journalist, lecturer and socialite; and Ann Bernadette Needham, 25, his secretary; he for the sixth time, she for the first; in Reno.

Died. Herbert Pulitzer, 61, third and only surviving son of the late great Editor Joseph Pulitzer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World), onetime publisher of the New York World (in...

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