Milestones: Jan. 26, 1962

Adopted. By Elizabeth Taylor, 29, Oscar-winning (Butterfield 8) cinema goddess, and Crooner Eddie Fisher, 33: Maria, a one-year-old orphan; announced in Rome. The couple has been "looking for a baby for about two years." Already living with the Fishers are two children of Miss Taylor's by former Husband Michael Wilding and one by Mike Todd. Fisher has two children of his own who live with ex-Wife Debbie Reynolds.

Died. James Spencer Love, 65, wiry, tireless chairman of Burlington Industries, which he personally spun from a shoestring into the world's biggest textile maker (1961 sales: $866 million); of a heart attack while playing...

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