Milestones, Jul. 25, 1960

Born. To Audrey Hepburn, 31. elfin, Brussels-born actress, and Mel Ferrer, 42, peripatetic actor-director: their first child (his fifth), a son; in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Born. To Marguerite Piazza, 34. onetime Metropolitan Opera nightingale turned supper-club thrush, and William James Condon, 49, a Tennessee snuff-company executive: their third child (ber fifth), second daughter; in Memphis,

Died. E. Maurice (“Buddy”) Adler, 52, Darryl Zanuck’s successor as Twentieth Century-Fox production boss in 1956, an astute judge and developer of new talent, including Joanne Woodward and Pat Boone, the producer of such box-office hits as Love Is a Many-Splendor~ed Thing, The Diary of Anne Frank, South Pacific and Columbia’s 1953 Academy Award-winning From Here to Eternity; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Told by Fox President Spyros Skouras in 1957, “I’m giving you $53 million; let’s see what you can do with it this year,” Adler obliged by producing 53 feature pictures (among them: The Enemy Below, The Three Faces of Eve), which helped Fox to a profit of more than $6,500,000 that year.

Died. Rudolph Charles von Ripper, 55, Austrian-born artist best known for his savage, Goyaesque, anti-Nazi etchings of the 1930s. and courageous soldier of fortune who was wounded many times while serving in the French Foreign Legion, Spanish Loyalist air force. U.S. Army and the OSS; of a heart attack; in Pol-lensa, Majorca.

Died. Chesser M. Campbell, 62, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and president of the Tribune Co. (a complex of 14 corporations including two shipping lines and the New York Daily News) since 1955, top man of the triumvirate that replaced the irreplaceable Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of heart disease; in Baie Comeau, Que. A onetime subscription solicitor who spent much of his 39-year Trib career as the paper’s shrewd, aggressive advertising manager, Campbell once received a memo from the colonel’s walnut-paneled office stating, “We carry a line over the classified ad section reading, ‘The Tribune prints more want ads than any other newspaper in America.’ Can’t we say the world?” Campbell could, and in 1946, he put the Trib atop the world in total ad linage as well.

Died. Lawrence Tibbett, 63, America’s great baritone, Metropolitan Opera principal from 1925 to 1950, popular radio, cinema, Broadway and concert performer; following head surgery; in Manhattan (see MUSIC).

Died. John Phillips Marquand, 66, U.S. novelist; of a heart attack in his sleep; in Newbury, Mass, (see box opposite).

Died. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, ‘ 74, unrepentant Nazi, one of Hitler’s top military strategists and his last commander in chief in the West; of heart disease; in Bad Nauheim, Germany. A career soldier and World War I pilot, Kesselring developed the combined ground-air attack strategy that was the key to early Nazi victories, at war’s start commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa and took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow retreat up the boot of Italy. Condemned to die by the British in 1947 for the reprisal massacre of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome, he got the sentence commuted to life and then to 20 years. Freed because of ill health in 1952, Kesselring was well enough to become president of the Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet), a veterans’ group whose militaristic ideal was expressed by their leader in his 1953 memoirs: “To revise our ideas in accordance with democratic principles. That is more than I can take.”

Died. Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, 87, able, globe-trotting ecclesiastical diplomat and administrator, director of the worldwide Roman Catholic missionary effort for the past 27 years, and a onetime (1923-33) apostolic delegate to the U.S.; after a long illness; in Rome. Head of a field force of approximately 95,000 missionary priests, nuns and lay brothers baptizing an estimated 500,000 converts each year, the cardinal urged the formation of a native clergy in Asia and Africa, lived to see more than 100 bishops and five cardinals chosen from those areas.

Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Gsell, 87, Alsatian-born Roman Catholic missionary, known as “the bishop with 150 wives” for his campaign against native child-marriage customs in Australia’s Northern Territory (he would “buy” young girls, sometimes for as little as $5, and send them off to mission homes); in Sydney.