Milestones, Sep. 21, 1953

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Born. To June Lockhart, 27, blonde actress of stage (For Love or Money), screen (Meet Me in St. Louis), and television (Who Said That?), and Dr. John Francis Maloney, 41, Manhattan surgeon: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Anne Kathleen. Weight: 6½ Ibs.

Born. To Tyrone Power III, 39, cinemactor (Blood and Sand, The Mississippi Gambler), and his second wife. Cinemactress Linda Christian (The Happy Time) Power, 29: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tarin Stephanie. Weight: 8 Ibs.

Married. Lana Turner, 33, cinemactress (The Merry Widow); and Lex Barker, 34, Hollywood's tenth Tarzan of the Apes; he for the third time, she for the fifth (her previous marriages to Millionaire Playboy Bob Topping. Businessman Steven Crane—two marriages—Bandleader Artie Shaw, all ended in divorce); in Turin, Italy.

Married. John F. (for Fitzgerald) Kennedy, 36, tousle-haired freshman Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, son of onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph P. Kennedy; and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, 24, onetime Washington Times-Herald inquiring photographer and debutante daughter of Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III; in a glittering church ceremony attended by some 700 guests; in Newport, R.I.

Divorced. By Gordon Evans Dean, 47, who, after almost three years as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, retired last June to become an executive of Lehman Bros., Manhattan investment bankers: Adelaide Williamson Dean, 48; on grounds of mental cruelty, after 23 years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Curtis Whittlesey McGraw, 57, president and board chairman of McGraw-Hill, world's largest publishers of technical, scientific and business books and periodicals (Business Week, Aviation Week, American Machinist), son of Founder James H. McGraw; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan.

Died. Frederick Moore Vinson, 63, Chief Justice of the U.S. since 1946, wartime federal economic czar and longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1924-29, 1931-38); of a heart attack; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Lewis Stone, 73, oldtime silent movie star (Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda) turned Hollywood character actor, best known as Judge Hardy in MGM's Andy Hardy series; of a heart attack, while chasing three teen-age vandals from his garden; in Hollywood.