Milestones, May 28, 1945

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Born. To Kathryn Jordan Goodman, 24, daughter of radio's top corn-& -cackle combination, Fibber McGee and Molly; and Lieut, (j.g.) Adrian Goodman. 24. U.S. Navy doctor; their first child, a daughter, Fibber and Molly's first grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Diane Marie. Weight : 6 Ibs.

Married. Princess Faiza, 22, beauteous third sister of Egypt's King Farouk (previously reported engaged to her third cousin, Nabil Ess-El-Din Hassan and a son of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia) ; and the Hon. Ali Raouf, U.S.-educated Egyptian and wartime resident of Switzerland; in Cairo.

Married. Humphrey Bogart, 45, cinema's surly, frog-voiced bad man; and Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Mansfield, Ohio.

Married. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 55, redheaded, stem-winding N.Y. Yankees boss; and Jean Bennett Wanamaker, 35, his pretty secretary; both for the second time; in Baltimore, Md.

Marriage Revealed. Léon Blum, 73, France's coldly intellectual Socialist ex-Premier; and Jeanne Levilliers Torres Reichenbach, fiftyish, onetime wife of brainy Gaullist Lawyer Henri Torres ; both for the third time; during Blum's four-year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp.

Died. Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, 66, Yale '01, at whose annual Yale barn parties a silver bowl was awarded to the Eli who had "made his Y in life"; of kidney poisoning; in Montclair, N.J. A favorite dictum of retired Stockbroker Roberts: "Let me hire the office boy; I am willing to have someone else hire the others."

Died. Joseph Barthélemy, 71, ex-Vichy Minister of Justice (1941-43), official prosecutor of Daladier, Blum and Gamelin at the long-winded Riom trials, since 1942 blacklisted as a collaborator by the French underground; before the start of his own trial by the French High Court of Justice; of cancer; near Toulouse.

Died. Heber Jedediah Grant, 88, seventh President and Prophet of the Church of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) since his succession (by seniority) in 1918, also its 33rd Apostle, and one of Utah's shrewdest, most successful insurance men and bankers; in Salt Lake City. Only son of the fifth wife of Salt Lake City's first mayor, Grant organized his first insurance company with $45 capital, preached his religion from England to Japan, outlived two of the three wives he married before the Church outlawed polygamy.