Milestones, Sep. 6, 1971

Born. To Bernadette Devlin, 24, Irish Catholic firebrand from the barricades of Bogside, who now has the dual distinction of being both the youngest member of Britain's Parliament and its first unwed mother: her first child, a daughter. Though still refusing to name the father, Bernadette bubbled, "I'm just like any other mother—I think my baby's beautiful."

Married. Jean Peters, 44, onetime movie actress (Captain from Castile, 1948) whose divorce from Industrialist Howard Hughes became final in June; and Stanley L. Hough, 51, a vice president of 20th Century-Fox; both for the third...

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