Milestones, Dec. 27, 1937

Born. To Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, and Edda Mussolini, Countess Ciano, influential daughter of Il Duce: their third child, a son; in Rome.

Married. Barbara Field, 19, athletic daughter of Capitalist Marshall Field III, great-granddaughter of the founder of the Chicago department store; to Anthony A. Bliss, 24, grandson of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior; in Manhattan.

Married. Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, 26, onetime (1930-35) famed athlete of Sing Sing Prison, who after his release won permission to play professional baseball by appealing to baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; and Mary Taltha Walker, 19, fellow millworker; in York, S. C.

Wedding Anniversary. Carter Henry Harrison, 77, son of the Chicago mayor murdered in his fifth term during the 1893 World's Fair, himself five times Chicago's mayor, and Edith Ogden Harrison; their 50th; in Chicago. Said spry Mr. Harrison, who nightly takes a drink: "Family spats . . . add spice to married life, provided they are not allowed to go too far." Asked his wife's age, he replies: "She never gives the same one twice."

Died. Robert Worth Bingham, 66, sportsman, lawyer, publisher, since 1933 U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; following a diagnostic operation which disclosed "abdominal Hodgkins disease," probably some form of infection with the appearance of tumor, whose rarity baffled Johns Hopkins' surgeons, whose seriousness surprised his friends; in Baltimore. His second marriage, in 1916, was to the widow of Standard Oil's late great Henry M. Flagler. She died eight months after marrying Mr. Bingham, left him $5,000,000. Next year he purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, became famed as one of the South's great newspaper proprietors.

Died. William Johnson Harahan, twice president of Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., eight days before his 70th birthday; of septicemia; in Clifton Forge, Va. His father, James Theodore Harahan, onetime president of Illinois Central R. R., was killed in a railroad wreck.

Died. Erich Ludendorff, 72, Germany's ruthless, domineering Wartime Chief of Staff, after an operation for a bladder ailment; in Munich.

Died. Kate Sturges Buckingham, 79, Chicago art patron, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Chicago. Of Miss Buckingham's numerous gifts to Chicago, most spectacular was $1,000,000 she gave in 1927 for the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain in Grant Park, which she endowed for $300,000.