Milestones, Apr. 24, 1950

Born. To Mickey Rooney, 29, perennial cinemadolescent and Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep), 25; their first child, Rooney 's third (two boys by an earlier marriage), a son. Name: Ted Michael. Weight: 7 lbs. 3 oz.

Married. Princess Fatmeh of Iran, 21, U.S. educated (Converse College, S.C.) daughter of the late Shah Mohamed Riza Pahlevi, youngest sister of the ruling Shah of Iran; and Vincent Lee Hillyer, 24, son of a Los Banos, Calif, doctor; in Civitavecchia, Italy. Although Hillyer offered to become an Iranian citizen and a Moslem, the Shah inexorably divested Fatmeh of all her royal privileges for...

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