Milestones, Sep. 23, 1946

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Born. To Ethel Barrymore Colt, 33, actress-singer daughter of great trouper Ethel Barrymore, and John R. Miglietta, fiftyish, American Republics Corp. executive: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Drew. Weight: 8 Ibs. 1 oz.

Married. Geraldine Fitzgerald, 31, cinemactress; and Stuart Scheftel, 36, publisher of the prosperous juvenile journal Young America; she for the second time, he for the first; in Los Angeles.

Died. George Washington Hill, 61, American Tobacco Co. president whose extravagant advertising campaigns and air-hammer slogans ("Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War," "LS/MFT") dominated cigaret advertising, set style for radio commercials, added catchy phrases to everyday speech; whom many readers saw as the prototype for Evan Llewelyn Evans in Frederic Wakeman's best-selling satire, The Hucksters; of a heart attack; in Matapédia, Que. (see BUSINESS).

Died. Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler, 76, homespun country doctor and surgeon, author of the autobiographical bestseller, The Horse and Buggy Doctor; of uremia; in Halstead, Kans.

Died. General Henri Gouraud, 78, oft-wounded, one-armed idol of the Army of France, hero of the bloody Gallipoli campaign, World War I commander of the Fourth Army (which included the 36th and 42nd U.S. divisions), Military Governor of Paris until 1937; in Paris.

Died. Ida Stover Eisenhower, 84, frail, unassuming mother of five sons, among them General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff; in Abilene, Kans. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).