Milestones: Sep. 15, 1961

Born. To Harry Belafonte, 34, stormy king of folk singers, and Julie Robinson, 32, his ex-dancer second wife: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan.

Married. William McCormick Blair Jr., 44, former law partner of Adlai Stevenson, now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark; and Catherine ("Deeda") Gerlach, 29, a fellow Chicago socialite; he for the first time, she for the second; outside Copenhagen at Frederiksborg Castle, which was packed with the flower of U.S. Democracy, headed by the President's mother. Mrs. Joseph Kennedy.

Married. Jean Kerr McCarthy, 36, widow of the late Senator...

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