Milestones, Jan. 7, 1952

Born. To Oliver La Farge, 50, novelist (Laughing Boy), historian of the Air Transport Command (The Eagle in the Egg), crusader for the American Indian’s rights, and Consuelo Baca La Farge, 38, his second wife: their second child (his fourth), a son. Name: John Penderais. Weight: 6 Ibs. 8 oz.

Married. Claire Young, 21, daughter of a professor at Chicago’s Loyola University; and Luciano Negrini, 43, onetime Italian Roman Catholic missionary priest who, in disgrace, voluntarily took off his frock (TIME, Aug. 13); in Milan. For marrying, and so breaking his vows of celibacy, both were excommunicated by the church. Claire also gave up her U.S. citizenship. Negrini and wife make a living selling ready-tied neckties and giving English lessons.

Married. Rudolph Halley, 38, lawyer, TV star (the Kefauver Crime Committee hearings, Crime Syndicated) and president of the New York City Council; and Janice Brosh, 31, Pennsylvania-born nurse who attended Halley after an operation last April for a bladder condition; he for the third time (his first and second wives divorced him), she for the first; in Manhattan.

Married. Edouard Daladier, 67, Premier of France at the outbreak of World War II, who was arrested by Marshal Petain and imprisoned in Germany, is now a member of the National Assembly; and Jeanne Boucoiran, 44, sometime professor of French at Middlebury College, Vermont, and employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; he for the second time, she for the first; near Paris.

Died. General Karl Roller, 53, who rose from sergeant to chief of staff of the Nazi air force near the end of World War II; of a heart attack; in Munich. After the war he was reduced to heading a Bavarian veterans’ club, working as office manager in a Munich Volkswagen garage, writing his memoirs.