Milestones: Jul. 14, 1930

Birthdays. Calvin Coolidge. Age: 58. Date: July 4. Celebration: opening mail at his Northampton, Mass, law office. From Lee Ting Quan, oldtime chef on the Presidential yacht Mayflower, now a Manhattan restaurateur, he received a 20-lb fruit cake decorated with rosebuds and green leaves.

Other July 4 birthday celebrators: Actor George Michael Cohan, 52; Cartoonist Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, 47.

Birthday. John Davison Rockefeller. Age: 91. Date: July 8.

Married. Mrs Josephine Alger Cheney, granddaughter of the late General Russell Alexander Alger, McKinley secretary of war (1897-99);...

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