Milestones, Dec. 25, 1939

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Born. To Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 20, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000), and Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 25, tin-plate heir ($9,000,000); their first child, a daughter: Sandra Emerson, tin-Bromo heiress (7 Ib. 7 oz.).

Born. To Prince Alexis Obolensky II, 25, Manhattan cafe socialite, Russian nobleman once removed, and Princess Obolensky (Jane Wheeler Irby), 23, New Orleans socialite: their first child, a daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: Ann. Weight: 7 Ib. 2 oz.

Married. Raymond Wilmarth Ickes,

27, Assistant U. S. Attorney in New York, son of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes; and Miralotta Lucia Sauer, 25, daughter of a Winnetka pediatrician; in Winnetka, Ill. Best man: Secretary Ickes.

Married. Joseph George Strecker, 51, born in Galicia, Hot Springs, Ark. lunchroom proprietor and onetime U. S. Communist; and Mrs. Emma Howard, 41, Hot Springs widow; in Hot Springs. Last April Strecker's appeal from a deportation order went to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that past membership in the Communist Party is insufficient grounds on which to deport an alien.

Divorced. Madeleine Carroll Astley, 33, beauteous British cinemactress; from Philip Astley, British Army captain and real-estate broker; in London.

Divorced. Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), 53, bespectacled, bulb-nosed comedian; by Frieda Louise Mierse Wynn,

28, former "Miss America" (1927); his second wife; in Reno.

Died. Dr. William Irving Sirovich, 57, New York's eloquent, dressy, perpetually carnationed Congressman from the Lower East Side; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, 61, President (the 16th) of Panama, longtime champion of Pan-American solidarity; of a heart attack; in Penonome, Panama.

Died. Carl Edgar Mapes, 64, able, hardworking, non-orating, longtime Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. His last words: "I wish I were home [Grand Rapids, Mich.]."

Died. Charles Rudolph Walgreen, 66, tightlipped, tight-minded founder of the U. S.'s second largest ($27,846,000) drugstore chain (508 stores in 37 States); in Chicago. In 1935, he removed his niece from the University of Chicago because he disapproved of the "Communistic theories" taught there, later gave the university $550,000 to establish the Walgreen Foundation for Study of American Institutions.