Milestones, Sep. 17, 1945

Born. To Navy Lieut. Joseph Willard Roosevelt, 27, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late Maj. Kermit, and Nancy Thayer Roosevelt, 25, Manhattan socialite: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Simon Willard. Weight: 7 Ibs., 10 oz.

Married. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr.,* 33, California playboy and sugar heir; and Kay Williams, 26, blonde Hollywood starlet; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Wickenburg, Ariz.

Divorced. Richard Arlen (real name: Richard Mattimore), 45, longtime Hollywood romantic lead, still a two-fisted hero in B pictures (Minesweeper); by Jobyna Ralston,...

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