Milestones, Jan. 21, 1957

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MILESTONES Born. To Nancy Kelly, 35, stage-and-screen actress (The Bad Seed) and Warren Caro, 49, Theatre Guild executive: a daughter, their first child, eleven weeks prematurely; in Manhattan. Name: Kelly Lurie. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 ½oz.

Married. T. S. for (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, 68, St. Louis-born, naturalized-British Nobel Prizewinner and brilliant, brittle poet of time and mortality (The Waste Land, Four Quartets); and Esmé Valerie Fletcher, 30, for seven years his private secretary at Faber & Faber, Ltd., London publishing firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf between May and December in Lines for an Old Man (Collected Poems: 1909-1935):

When I lay bare the tooth of wit The hissing over the arched tongue Is more affectionate than hate, More bitter than the love of youth, And inaccessible by the young.

Divorced. Alfried Felix Alwin Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 49, munitions-rich head of the German industrial dynasty; by Vera Krupp, 47, German-born U.S. citizen, onetime New York socialite and part owner of Las Vegas' New Frontier casino; after four years of marriage, no children; in a defaulted suit which allows her no claim to Krupp's $150 million holdings; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. By Sheilah Graham, aging (fiftyish) blonde Hollywood gossipist, onetime London chorus girl and great and good friend of the late Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wojciechowicz Stanley ("Bow Wow") Wojtkiewicz, 40, sometime athletic director; after four years of marriage, one of separation, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help it. Everybody pays their way and they take their chances. That's just the way it goes."

Died. James Leslie (Jim) Marshall, 65, onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif.

Died. Jerome New Frank, 67, agile-minded onetime New Deal brain-truster, general counsel to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration from 1933 to 1935, chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission from 1939 to 1941, and judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut and Vermont) since 1941; of a heart attack; in New Haven.