--- description: Born. To Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 32, spectacled centerfielder of the Boston Red Sox, arch-rival and loyal booster of Yankee ace big brother Joe, and Emily Frederick... title: Milestones, May 8, 1950 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones, May 8, 1950 by [TIME](/author/time/) May 8, 1950 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) May 8, 1950 4:00 AM CUT Born. To Dominic (“The Little Professor”) DiMaggio, 32, spectacled centerfielder of the Boston Red Sox, arch-rival and loyal booster of Yankee ace big brother Joe, and Emily Frederick DiMaggio, 27: their first child, a son. Name: Dominic Paul. Weight: 7 Ibs. 13½ oz. Married. King Phumiphon of Siam, 22, Boston-born, saxophone-tootling King of Siam; and Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, 17, his distant royal cousin; in Bangkok (see PEOPLE). Married. Joan Caulfield, 27, blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth); and Frank Ross, 45, Hollywood producer (A Lady Takes a Chance); in Beverly Hills, Calif. Marriage Revealed. Arthur Koestler, 45, expatriate Hungarian author, widely read interpreter of the Communist mind (Darkness at Noon, The God That Failed); and his secretary, 34, who two years ago legally changed her name from Mamaine Paget to Mamaine Paget Koestler; she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris. Died. Robert James Doyle, 31, TIME-LIFE Far Eastern correspondent; in an attack by Indonesian terrorists in which Yale Sociology Professor Raymond Kennedy, 43, was also killed; near Tomo, U.S.I, (see FOREIGN NEWS). Died. Generoso Pope, 59, Italian-born New Yorker who rose from $3-a-week water boy to Tammany Hall big shot and publisher of one of the country’s largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his $8,847,988 Colonial Sand and Stone Co. Inc., Pope bought three Italian-language dailies which he merged into one. After supporting Italy’s fascist regime for a dozen years, Publisher-Politico Pope repudiated Mussolini in 1941, was active in pushing the U.S.-to-Italy letter-writing campaign which helped defeat the Italian Reds in the ’48 elections. Died. Walter V. Hutchinson, 62, multimillionaire British publisher and sportsman, after long illness; in Winchester, England. Self-styled “the world’s largest” book publisher (10 million a year), Art Patron Hutchinson collected and donated to his country £900,000 worth of paintings and prints, known as the National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes. Died. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, 69, Harvard-educated authority on Russian drama, grandson of Poet Longfellow and Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast); of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. He was fired from the Columbia faculty in 1917 for pacifism, barred from England in 1932 for pro-Communist activities. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6614756/milestones-may-8-1950/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6614756/milestones-may-8-1950/"},"headline":"Milestones, May 8, 1950","datePublished":"1950-05-08T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T05:39:33.558Z","description":"Born. To Dominic (\"The Little Professor\") DiMaggio, 32, spectacled centerfielder of the Boston Red Sox, arch-rival and loyal booster of Yankee ace big brother Joe, and Emily Frederick...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6614756/milestones-may-8-1950/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6614756/milestones-may-8-1950/","name":"Milestones, May 8, 1950"}}]}] ```