Milestones, Mar. 4, 1957

Born. To Francis Murray Patrick Mc-Mahon, 54, oil-rich Calgary wheeler-dealer (TIME, Jan. 14), board chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd.. and Betty Betz McMahon, 37, onetime Hearst teenagers' columnist: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Francine. Weight: 5 Ibs. 8 oz.

Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic...

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