Milestones, Sep. 24, 1945

Born. To William Howard Taft III, 30, eldest son of Ohio's U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft, War Department intelligence official, and Barbara Hoult Bradfield Taft, 28; their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: William Howard IV.

Weight : 7 lbs. 6 oz.

Born. To William H. Vanderbilt, 43, ex-Governor of Rhode Island, now a gentleman farmer after four years in the Navy, and Anne Gordon Colby Vanderbilt, 37: their third (his fourth) child, a son. Name: William Henry Jr. Weight: 8 lbs. 2½ oz. When their twin daughters (now 14) were forecast by...

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