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Milestones, Aug. 8, 1955

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Born. To Armi Kuusela, 20, Finland’s blue-eyed 1952 Miss Universe, and Virgilio Hilario, 28, well-to-do Philippine real-estate man; their first child, a son; in Manila. Name: Gil Aarne. Weight: 7 Ibs. 15 oz.

Married. Eileen Jean (“Walda”) Winchell, 28, onetime Broadway actress (Dark of the Moon), daughter of Columnist Walter Winchell; and California Industrialist Hyatt von Dehn, 46; she for the second time, he for the third (his second: Singer-Actress Ginny Simms); in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Marriage Revealed. Charles Addams, 43, bats-and-werewolves cartoonist of The New Yorker; and Barbara Barb, 35, New York lawyer; both for the second time; on Dec. 1, 1954; in Florence, S.C.

Died. Margo Jones, 41, founder and managing director of the Dallas Theatre-in-the-Round, Broadway producer (Summer and Smoke}, director (Joan of Lorraine); of uremic poisoning; in Dallas.

Died. Earl G. Harrison, 56, Philadelphia attorney, onetime (1945-48) dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, wartime Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (1942-44); of a heart attack; near Sabael, N.Y.

Died. Willy Pogany, 72, Hungarian-born painter, illustrator and architectural designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With little formal training, Pogany became one of the most versatile artists of his day. Among his creations: murals for Manhattan’s Ziegfeld Theater; scenes, sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera’s Cog d’Or; three 18-ft. stained-glass windows in Los Angeles’ Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Died. Richard Samuel Reynolds Sr., 73, who began his business career at $50 a month, went on to build his own aluminum empire (Reynolds Metals Co.), still found time to turn out poetry for longhaired literary quarterlies; of a heart attack; in Richmond, Va.

Died. Admiral Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, 75, head of the British Naval Delegation to Washington (1942-44), commander in chief of the Western Approaches in the fight against Nazi U-boats (1941-42), commander in chief of the China Station (1938-40); of coronary thrombosis; in London. Regarded as a top naval strategist, destroyer-trained Sir Percy organized the British defenses that helped keep World War II’s North Atlantic convoy routes open.

Died. Syrie Maugham, 76, former wife (1915-27) of Author Somerset Maugham, mother of his only daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Lord John Hope; of a heart attack; in London.

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