Milestones Nov. 6, 2006

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DIED. Jane Wyatt, 96, actress who became TV's favorite mother figure; in Los Angeles. The decision by the blue-blooded Barnard College alumna to enter show business led to the removal of her name from New York City's Social Register--and to a long career playing, in her words, "good wives of good men." Briefly blacklisted following a 1947 trip to Washington to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee, Wyatt needed a push from her husband to take what became her most famous role, sensible suburban mom Margaret Anderson opposite Robert Young on TV's Father Knows Best, for which she won three Emmys during its six-year run in the 1950s. Among her other memorable roles: a Shangri-la beauty who takes a starlit skinny-dip in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon and the human mom to Leonard Nimoy's half-Vulcan Mr. Spock on Star Trek.