Milestones, Oct. 28, 1957

Born. To Carol Haney, 32, gaminlike dancer of The Pajama Game (both stage and screen), and Actor Larry Blyden, 32; a son, their first child; by Caesarean section; in Manhattan. Name: Joshua. Weight: 4 lbs. 12 oz.

Died. William C. De Koning Sr., 59, shrewd, tough ("I ain't afraid of no one") Long Island labor hustler and strong-arm boy, convicted of extortion in 1954 after a four-year crusade by Long Island's Newsday (for which it won the Pulitzer Prize); of chronic hepatitis; in Mineola, N.Y. A.F.L. Organizer De Koning bullied his way from Local 138 of the International Union of...

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