Milestones: Sep. 13, 1968

Born. To Vidal Sassoon, 40, New York-based British hair stylist to the Beautiful People (Mia Farrow, Suzy Parker, Nancy Kwan), and Beverly Adams, 22, Hollywood starlet (The Silencers): their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan.

Died. Dennis O'Keefe, 60, breezy cinemactor of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the...

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