Milestones, Apr. 26, 1971

Born. To James Roosevelt, 63, eldest son of F.D.R., a former U.S. Congressman and currently a business consultant in Switzerland, and his fourth wife, onetime British Schoolteacher Mary Winskill Roosevelt, 32: their first child (his seventh), a daughter; in Geneva. Name: Rebecca Mary.

Married. Burl Ives, 61, folk balladeer and Oscar-winning actor (in 1958); and Dorothy Koster, 44, longtime friend and the architect of Ives' New Mexico home; both for the second time; in London.

Died. Wynton Kelly, 39, jazz pianist; in Toronto. From the 1950s through the mid-'60s, Kelly was a catalytic figure in a number of groups featuring such improvisational superstars...

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