Milestones, May 12, 1947

Born. To Red Skelton, 33, slap-happy radio and cinema comic, and ex-Starlet Georgia Maureen Davis, 25, his second wife (No. 1, Edna Borzage, is still his manager): their first child, a girl; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Valentina Marie. Weight: 7 Ibs. n oz.

Born. To Bette Davis, 39, high-strung cinemactress, and Painter (ex-boxer) William Grant Sherry, 32, her third husband: her first child, a girl, on May Day, which Bette chose for her Caesarian section; in Santa Ana, Calif. Name: Barbara Davis Sherry. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry...

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