Milestones, Apr. 18, 1932

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Born. To Gloria Swanson, 31, film actress, and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; a daughter; in London. Weight: 7 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Michele Bridget. Said Actress Swanson: "I'm so excited I can hardly talk. ... It was all so sudden." She was illegally married Aug. 16 last year, was remarried in November after her divorce from her third husband, Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye, became final.

Born. To Isabella, Countess of Paris and "Crown Princess of France," a daughter; at Brussels where the former French Royal Family is in comfortable exile.

Married. Trevor Charles Stamp. M.D., second son of Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Charles Gates Dawes; in Evanston, Ill..

Married. Milton Charles Winternitz, dean of the Yale Medical School; and Mrs. Pauline Webster Whitney. New Haven socialite, president of the National Federation of Day Nurseries; in New Haven.

Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Muller, 68, Philadelphia realtor, cousin of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler; and Everett Tompkins, 31, her chauffeur; in Philadelphia, Said Mrs. Muller: "This way I have a chauffeur who will be taking a real interest in the business, because it's part of his income. We . . . like each other immensely."

Died. Count Ottokar Czernin, 60, Wartime Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary; of heart disease; in Vienna. Minister in Bucharest at the start of the War, he later dictated the peace terms to defeated Rumania, aided in forcing the treaty of Brest-Litvosk on Bolshevik Russia. Foreseeing ultimate defeat and consequent disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, he strove for peace, was made a scapegoat for his pains.

Died. Vice-Admiral Andreas Michelsen, 62, retired Wartime commander of Germany's submarine fleet; in Fallingbostel, Germany. In his The U-Boat War, 1914-1918 he claimed that 146 vulnerable enemy vessels carrying U. S. citizens were not torpedoed for fear of U. S. wrath.

Died. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, 62, lawyer, onetime partner of the late De Lancey Nicoll; of pneumonia; in La Quinta, Calif. With Nicoll he represented the (old) American Tobacco Co. when the Federal Government dissolved it for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Other clients: the Henry M. Flagler estate, James A. Stillman, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, the New York Giants.

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