Milestones, Aug. 24, 1959

Born. To Dominic Elwes, 28, free-spending man-about-London, son of Royal Portrait Painter Simon Elwes; and Shipping Heiress Tessa Kennedy, 21, who traveled 7,000 miles about the Western Hemisphere with Dominic to escape an English court order barring their marriage, married him in Cuba, returned to London where she saw him off to jail to serve 14 days for contempt of court: a son; in London. Name: Cassian Gary.

Married. Sue Simone Ingersoll, 21, New Mexico's peppery redheaded entry for the Miss Universe contest who defied Albuquerque Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne's ban on Roman Catholics'...

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