Milestones, Dec. 18, 1933

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BOrn. To John Randolph Hearst, 24, third and ablest son of William Randolph Hearst, and Gretchen Wilson Hearst; a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ib. 8 oz.

Married. Anna Hope Dale Biddle, 31, footloose Philadelphia socialite; and William Starling Burgess, 54, yacht & airplane designer, builder of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup defender Enterprise, co-designer of the Dymaxion car; in Reno, immediately after she divorced Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia lawyer, on grounds of cruelty. Returning from a spectacular Alaskan jaunt some two years ago, Mrs. Biddle complained that her friends snubbed her, called her a "hellcat'' for leaving her husband and three small children. It was Mr. Burgess' fourth marriage.

Married. Dorothy Patterson Judah, 40, daughter of the late John Patterson, founder of National Cash Register Co., divorced wife of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Noble Brandon Judah; and Socialite Randolph Santini of Manhattan; in Manhattan.

Married. Dr. Hubert Work, 73, one-time U. S. Postmaster-General (1922-23). Secretary of the Interior (1923-28), chairman of the Republican National Committee (1928-29); and Ethel Reed Gano, Denver widow; in Denver.

Sued for Divorce. Douglas Fairbanks (Nicholas Ullman): by Mary Pickford (Gladys Mary Smith); in Los Angeles. Grounds: "Grievous mental suffering."

Divorced. Charles Coudert Nast, lawyer, politician, son of Publisher Condé Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); by Charlotte Brown Nast, Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Grounds: extreme cruelty.

Died. Theodore Wexler, 19, University of North Carolina premedical student, elder son of Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, New York beerlegger convicted last fortnight of income tax evasion (TIME, Dec. 11); of injuries suffered when the automobile in which he was speeding north to help plead for reduction of his father's sentence, crashed into a fireplug; near Chester, Pa.

Died. Eleanor Steele Scott, 29, wife of Technocracy's Howard Scott; in Perth Amboy, N. J.

Died. Stella Benson Anderson, 41, British novelist and voyageuse; of pneumonia; in Hongay, Tonking, French Indo-China. A suffraget before the War, she aspired to "wit, learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where she turned up an astounding old Russian panhandler about whom she wrote her last book, Pull Devil, Pull Baker (TIME, July 3).

Died William Winston ("Bill") Roper, 53, Princeton's famed retired football coach, Philadelphia city councilman since 1920, branch manager of Prudential Insurance Co.; of a blood infection; in Philadelphia. Dynamic and eloquent, he adhered to no school or style of play, preached spirit and opportunism, taught his men not to fall on fumbled balls but to pick them up and run, decried football publicity when his teams had bad years, wrote football articles galore in good years.