Milestones, Dec. 24, 1951

Married. Lewis S. (for Samuel) Rosenstiel, 60, Cincinnati-born liquor baron, founder and president of Schenley, who once embarked on an unsuccessful campaign to teach 5,000 parrots to say "Drink Old Quaker" and install them in bars; and Louise Johnson Stark, 53, his first cousin, a surgeon's widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta.

Died. Mildred Bailey (real name: Rinker), 48, blues-moaning jazz singer, whose trademark was Rockin' Chair; of a heart ailment; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Half Coeur d'AlĂȘne Indian, she got her start at 17, plugging tunes in...

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