Milestones, Jan. 10, 1949

Born. To Gretchen Eraser, 29, pert, brown-haired 1948 Olympic ski champion (first American to win an Olympic ski race, the women’s special slalom), and Donald W. Fraser, 35, Vancouver, Wash. oil distributor: their first child, a son; in Portland, Ore. Name: Donald Jr. Weight: 9 Ibs. 4 oz.

Married. David Rose, 38, conductor-composer (Holiday for Strings’); and Betty Bigelow, 21, ex-Manhattan model; he for the third time (No. 1, Martha Raye, No. 2, Judy Garland), she for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Harry Amos Bullis, 58, chairman of the board of General Mills, Inc.; and Polish Countess Maria Smorczewska, 54, who was put into a Nazi concentration camp during the war for underground activities; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1947), she for the third; in Minneapolis.

Divorced. By Gloria Swanson, 49, siren of the silent screen (now making a comeback as mistress of ceremonies on a television show): fifth husband William M. Davey, 65, Wall Street yachtsman; after three years of marriage, no children; in Reno.

Died. Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, 60, Premier of Egypt; by an assassin’s bullet; in Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Sir Malcolm Campbell, 63, internationally known speed king; of a cardiac condition and stroke; in Reigate, England. A racing enthusiast from boyhood, Sir Malcolm (King George V knighted him in 1931) tried bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed “Bluebird” over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled.

Died. James Stuart (“Rawhide Jimmy”) Douglas, 80, Canadian-born father of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s Lewis W. Douglas, onetime Arizona mining executive and banker; in Montreal.

Died. William H. Lewis, 80, Boston Negro lawyer, onetime star Harvard football center (he captained the team for one. game against Pennsylvania in 1893); in Boston. One of the first Negro members of the American Bar Association, Lewis was appointed an Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. by President Taft (1911-13).

* Present record: John Cobb’s 394.196 m.p.h., set a year ago.