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Milestones, Nov. 27, 1944

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Born. To Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt (“Sonny”) Whitney, 45, well-fixed U.S. Army Air Forces Plans Division officer; and his third wife, Eleanor Searle Whitney; 35, oratorio singer: their (and her) first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Name Cornelius Searle. Weight: 7½ Ibs.

Married. Margaret Culkin Banning, 53, cozy, women’s magazine serialist; and LeRoy Salsich, 64, Duluth, Minn., iron mine executive; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Boake Carter, 46, baleful-voiced, tendentious radioracle; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Born in Baku, Russia (his parents were a British consular couple). Carter got his radio start in 1930 by covering a local rugby match (no other Philadelphia newsman understood the game). Listeners either loved or loathed his clipped, British-toned accent, his “cheerio” signature, his hyped-up, opinionated presentation of the news.

Died. Ambrose R. Clark, 64, correct, impeccable dean of ushers at Manhattan’s Riverside Church, creator of the traditional ushers’ uniform (cutaway, striped trousers, scarf and boutonniere) ; of a heart attack; in Fayetteville, N.Y.

Died. Smith Wildman Brookhart, 75, chunky, teetotaling, tobacco-shunning, onetime Republican Senator from Iowa, Farm Bloc regular, Soldier Bonus plugger, expert rifleman and early advocate of recognizing Russia; in Prescott, Arizona.

Died. Ellison DuRant (“Cotton Ed”) Smith, 80, walrus-mustached, unreconstructed Democratic Senator from South Carolina for 35 years (longest consecutive Senatorial term in U.S. history); of coronary thrombosis; in Lynchburg, S.C. Perched on cotton bales in a mule-drawn wagon, Cotton Ed galumphed through South Carolina, roaring his belief that in his God-blessed state a family could have security on 50¢ a day. A pain in the New Deal’s side, he championed “white supremacy,” the poll tax, states’ rights. Last July, roundly trounced in the Democratic primaries by Governor Olin Johnston, he returned to his dirt farm to look after his pigs.

Died. The Reverend Dr. Endicott Peabody, 87, founder (in 1884) and head master emeritus of Groton School; in Groton, Mass. A robust legend to generations of schoolboys, Dr. Peabody retired as headmaster in 1940, was recently the subject of a biography, Peabody of Groton (TIME, Oct. 30). Last week, he taught a usual morning class in sacred theology, lunched, undertook to drive the wife of a former master to the railroad station. On the way, he stopped his car by the road and died.

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