Milestones, May 8, 1939

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Born. To Elizabeth Donner Winsor, divorced wife of Elliott Roosevelt, and her second husband, Curtin Winsor; her second, their first, son; in Philadelphia. Weight: 8 Ibs.

Engaged. Joe Di Maggio, 24, star centre fielder of the World Champion New York Yankees; and Dorothy Arnold, 20, screen & radio performer. Said Joe's hearty, well-publicized mother, a resident of San Francisco's Beach Street: "Joe no say a thing to me. No talk of this love business." Said Miss Arnold: "We sort of started to go around together and the first thing we knew—or at least that I knew—it was getting hotter." The announcement was hardly out when Centre Fielder Di Maggio, chasing a fly ball, hurt his ankle, was expected to be out of action for ten days.

Married. Helen Charis Wilson, 24, daughter of Novelist Harry Leon Wilson (Ruggles of Red Gap); and her employer, famed U. S. Photographer Edward Weston, 54; at Elk, Calif. Said Father Wilson, 72: "I'm sure the difference in their ages should make no difference in their happiness."

Married. Giuseppina Manchini, niece of Benito Mussolini; and Aviation Lieut. Renato Romanini, recently returned from bombing Spain; in Rome. To attend the wedding, Premier Mussolini postponed for one hour a Cabinet meeting called to hear his new armament program.

Married. Richard Scott Mowrer, Rome correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, son of its editor, Paul Scott Mowrer, nephew of its Paris correspondent, Edgar Ansel Mowrer; and Rosamund Cole, of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune; in Rome, 20 minutes before the bridegroom had to leave Italy because the censor did not like his dispatches.

Seeking Divorce. Lady Willmott Lewis, daughter of Frank B. Noyes, president of the Washington Star and former president of Associated Press; from Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, longtime Washington correspondent of the London Times; in Florida.

Divorced. Dorothy Lamour (real name: Dorothy Slaton), 24, sloe-eyed cinemactress; by Herbie Kay (real name: Herbert D. Kaumeyer), 30, sweet jazzband leader; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion.

Died. Mrs. Maryon Andrews Cooper Hewitt McCarter, 55, much-married (five times) Virginia belle who reportedly turned down an invitation from the Shah of Persia to head his harem; of cerebral apoplexy; in Manhattan. In 1936 her daughter, Heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt, charged Mrs. McCarter with mayhem: laving her sterilized to retain control of a $10,000,000 trust fund. Daughter Hewitt, who failed to press the charges, later married a mechanic, then a onetime bartender (TIME, March 27). Mrs. McCarter, driven into bankruptcy by extravagance and litigation, had been living on a trustee's allowance of $50 a week.

Died. Charles Percy Dixon, 66, captain of the British tennis team which defeated Australia, captained by the great Norman E. Brookes, in the Davis Cup challenge round of 1912; after long illness; in London.