Milestones, Jan. 9, 1950

Born. To Rita Hayworth (nee Can-sino), 31, cinemactress, and Prince Aly Khan, 38: a daughter (her second child, his third); in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Yasmin (Jasmine). Weight: 5 Ibs. 8 oz. (see CINEMA).

Married. Jacque Mercer, 18, Atlantic City's "Miss America" for 1949; and Douglas Cook, 20, her high-school beau; in a surprise wedding in her home town, Litchfield Park, Ariz, (see PEOPLE).

Married. Samuel Eliot Morison, 62, historian, proper Bostonian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1942), official historian of the Navy (History of U.S. Naval Operations in World...

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