Milestones, Aug. 31, 1953

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Born. To Crown Prince Asfa Wassan of Ethiopia, 37, and Crown Princess Medferiash Worq Abbebe, 30: their third child, first son, Emperor Haile Selassie's twelfth grandchild, second in line of succession to the throne. Name: to be announced, according to Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox custom, 40 days after birth. Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz.

Born. To Charles Chaplin, 64, cinema's incomparable funnyman, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 28, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their fifth child (his ninth), second son; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Weight: 8 Ibs.

Married. Ranko Koizumi, 23, granddaughter of U.S. Writer Lafcadio Hearn (who married a Japanese samurai's daughter, changed his name to Koizumi and became a Japanese citizen); and Air Force 1st Lieut. Gordon C. Brandes, 27; in the bride's home in Tokyo.

Married. Dorothy Schiff, 50, publisher of the Fair-Dealing New York Post; and Rudolph Goldschmid Sonneborn, 55, petroleum-products manufacturer; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Bert Andrews, Washington bureau chief of the New York Herald Tribune, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for soberly exposing the State Department's star chamber loyalty proceedings; of a heart ailment; in Denver, while covering President Eisenhower's vacation.

Died. Edward Joseph Flynn, 61, longtime Democratic boss of New York's Bronx County (pop. 1,491,000); after long illness; while vacationing in Dublin, Ireland. Elected county sheriff with Tammany backing in 1921, Flynn became boss of the county machine a few months later, efficiently converted the Bronx from a Republican stronghold into the greatest Democratic fortress north of the Mason-Dixon line. Splitting with Tammany in 1925, he backed the late Jimmy Walker for mayor, later became the leading New Dealer among Democratic city bosses ("I'm for anything Roosevelt is for"). When National Committee Chairman Jim Farley resigned in 1940 in protest against the third term, Ed Flynn reluctantly took over for almost three years, was rewarded with trips to Yalta, Moscow and the Vatican as a wartime presidential envoy. In 1947 he wrote a candid analysis of his political methods, You're the Boss, in which he declared: "The only way to win elections year after year is to know what the voters want and give it to them."

Died. Harold Knutson, 72, longtime Republican U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1917-49); of a heart ailment; in Wadena, Minn. Norwegian-born, he succeeded Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the flyer, in Congress, cast his first vote in 1917 against a declaration of war on Germany, was a leading isolationist before and after Pearl Harbor, stoutly fought the Democrats and all their works on almost every issue,* including the easing of immigration restrictions.

Died. Edwin Goodman, 76, chairman and co-founder of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman (women's specialty shop), where he personally attended to the wants of the world's rich and royal (e.g., Madame Chiang Kaishek, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. John Jacob Astor); in Manhattan.

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