Milestones, Sep. 13, 1948

Born. To William Henry ("Bill") Maul din, 26, baby-faced Pulitzer Prize cartoonist, creator of grimy G.I.s Willie and Joe, and second wife Natalie Evans Mauldin, 24: a son; in Manhattan. Name: Andrew Edgar. Weight: 6 lbs. 13 oz.

Married. James A. Michener, 41, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (Tales of the South Pacific); and Vange A. Nord, 26, publicity writer; in Manhattan.

Died. Russell Maloney, 38, pudgy, chess-playing humorist (It's Still Maloney), onetime New Yorker wit, CBS critic ("Of Men and Books"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Colonel General Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 52,...

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