Milestones: Aug. 17, 1962

Born. To William McCormick Blair Jr., 45, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and a former law partner of Adlai Stevenson, and Catherine ("Deeda") Gerlach Blair, 30, stately Chicago socialite: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen.

Married. Marie ("The Body") McDonald, 38, sometime Hollywood actress, whose mysterious, never-solved "kidnaping" in 1957 raised eyebrows along with headlines when, after staying lost for 24 hours, she turned up wandering along a highway 150 miles from her home with a tale of being abducted, raped, and tossed into the California desert night; and Edward P. Callahan, 41,...

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