MILESTONES: Milestones, Dec. 14, 1959

Born. To Ashley Cooper, 23, world amateur-tennis champ (1958) recently turned pro; and Helen Wood, 21, Miss Australia of 1957: their first child; in Brisbane, Australia. Name: Lisa Jane. Weight: 8 lbs. 2 oz.

Married. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 54, greying playboy son of Britain's World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field; and Diane Kirk, 18, London model; he for the fourth time, she for the first, in Midhurst, England.

Died. Rosetta Duncan, 58, comic member of the rollicking vaudeville sister team (with Vivian) that did a famed take-off on Uncle Tom's Cabin called...

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