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Milestones, Jan. 9, 1950

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Born. To Rita Hayworth (nee Can-sino), 31, cinemactress, and Prince Aly Khan, 38: a daughter (her second child, his third); in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Yasmin (Jasmine). Weight: 5 Ibs. 8 oz. (see CINEMA).

Married. Jacque Mercer, 18, Atlantic City’s “Miss America” for 1949; and Douglas Cook, 20, her high-school beau; in a surprise wedding in her home town, Litchfield Park, Ariz, (see PEOPLE).

Married. Samuel Eliot Morison, 62, historian, proper Bostonian, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1942), official historian of the Navy (History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II) and of his alma mater (Tercentennial History of Harvard, 1930-36); and tennis-playing, concert-singing Priscilla Barton, 44, Baltimore socialite; both for the second time; in Baltimore.

Died. Dr. John (“Jack”) E. Lovelock,

39, New Zealand’s wiry, curly-haired trackman, who set world’s records in the ’30s, came to Manhattan two years ago to specialize in crippling diseases; in an accidental fall before a subway train shortly after telling friends he felt ill; in Brooklyn. Lovelock’s world’s records, all since surpassed: in 1932, a ¾mile in 3 min. 2.2 sec.; in 1933, a mile in 4 min. 7.6 sec.; in 1936, before Adolf Hitler and 100,000 others at the Berlin Olympics, the 1,500-meter run in 3 min. 47.8 sec.

Died. Charles E. Brickley, 58, Harvard (’14), an All America football great and most spectacular dropkicker of them all; of a heart attack: in his Manhattan hotel room. In his greatest day, Halfback Brickley kicked all of Harvard’s points in the spectacular 15-5 victory over Yale in 1913, in three years, made a total of 30 touchdowns and 34 field goals for the Crimson. He found life a tougher game to play, tried pro-football, brokerage, in later years wound up as an advertising salesman.

Died. Hervey Allen, 60, historical romancer, whose rambling, bulky Anthony Adverse (2 ¾Ibs., 1,224 pp.), published when he was 44, brought him fame & fortune; of a heart attack; in Miami. Writer also of a major work on Poe (Israfel, 1926), Author Allen had completed before his death three volumes (The Forest and the Fort, Bedford Village, Toward the Morning) of a proposed pentalogy (The Disinherited) about colonial America.

Died. Emil Jannings, 62, hulking Swiss-born German cinemactor who won Hollywood’s first “Oscar” (The Way of All Flesh, 1928); of cancer; at his lakeside home in Austria. Forsaking the U.S. when talkies exposed his accent in 1929, Jannings made Nazi propaganda (Ohm Kriiger), but was denazified in 1946.

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