Milestones, Mar. 30, 1959

Born. To Kwame Nkrumah, 49, Prime Minister of Ghana, and Fatia Nkrumah, 29, his Christian Egyptian wife: their first child, a son; in Accra. Name: Kweku.*

Marriage Revealed. Joe Louis, 44, heavyweight champion (1937-48), who recently formed a film company to do a TV series based on his life; and Martha Jefferson, 46, Los Angeles attorney, still a law partner of her previous husband; his fourth marriage, third wife (the first Mrs. Louis remarried him after a divorce) ; in Winterhaven, Calif., March n.

Died. Lester Willis ("Prez") Young, 49, whose light and easy tenor saxophone was among the coolest in the history...

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