Milestones, Feb. 24, 1941

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Born. To Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford Romilly, 23, sister of Hitler Friend Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, and fifth of Lord Redesdale's six beauteous daughters; and Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 22, nephew of Winston Churchill's wife, onetime warrior for Loyalist Spain, now training with the Royal Canadian Air Force; a daughter, their first child; in Washington, D. C.

Married. Constance Winant, 20, only daughter of Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, student at the university in Lima; and Carlos Valando, 22, Peruvian scientist; at Chincha, Peru. They flew to the U. S. for a second ceremony before Ambassador Winant leaves for London.

Married. Lady Iris Mountbatten, cousin of George VI and great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Captain Hamilton O'Malley, of the Irish Guards; at Haywards Heath, Sussex, England. Her cousin Lady Louis Mountbatten was a great friend of their cousin, Edward Windsor.

Married. Tommy Gibbons, 51, oldtime heavyweight who in 1923 fought 15 famous rounds with Jack Dempsey at Shelby, Mont., now sheriff of Ramsey County (St. Paul), Minn.; and Mrs. Josephine Black, realtor's widow; both for the second time; in Chippewa Falls, Wis.

Married (for 50 years). Al Shean, 72, Bowery-voiced comic favorite in the old-time vaudeville team of (Positively) Mr. Gallagher and (Absolutely) Mr. Shean, uncle of the Marx Brothers; and Mrs. Johanna Shean, 70; celebrated in Manhattan a week after Comedian Shean observed his 60th year on the stage.

Died. Elizabeth Idabelle Firestone Graham, 27, wife of Defense Commission Aide Ray Austin Graham Jr., only daughter of the late Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone; of a streptococcus infection; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Andrew Jameson, 85, pink-cheeked, buffalo-hunting chairman of John Jameson & Son, Ltd., makers of Irish whiskey; in Dublin. "I was reared on Jameson's whiskey," he once observed.

Died. John J. McK'enna, 87, oldtime South Side Chicago Republican politician, and, as a leading ornament of McGarry's famous saloon at Dearborn & Madison, the original "Hennessy"—the constant companion and audience for Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley"; in Chicago. Hennessy, for example, once observed that the country was going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate an' has got no nearer than it is, thin the divvle is a divvle iv a ways further off than I feared."