Milestones, Jul. 9, 1956

Born. To Sir Edmund Hillary, 36. New Zealand beekeeper and 1953 co-conqueror (with Tenzing, the Sherpa guide) of Mt. Everest, and Lady Hillary. 25: their second child, a daughter; in Auckland, New Zealand. Name: Sarah Louise.

Born. To Preston Sturges, 57, sometime Broadway playwright (Strictly Dishonorable), veteran movie writer-director (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) and Fourth Wife Anne Nagle Sturges, 26: their second child (his third), a son; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Name: Thomas Preston. Weight: 5 Ibs. 2 oz.

Married. Marilyn Monroe, 30, cinemactress, and Arthur Miller, 40, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright (Death of a Salesman); she for the third time...

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