Milestones: Feb. 17, 1961

Born. To Henri, Count of Clermont, 27, pipe-smoking son of the Count of Paris, who is pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg: their second child, first son and third in line in a succession reaching back to 888, when Eudes became King of France; in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. Name: Francois Henri Louis Marie de France.

Married. Nathan Leopold, 56, son of a millionaire Chicago box manufacturer, who teamed with Richard Loeb in 1924 to murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a Dostoyevskian crime without passion, was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years, served 33 years before earning parole in 1958, and is now a graduate student of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico; and Trudi Garcia de Quevedo, 56, Baltimore-born widow who runs a flower shop in San Juan; in Castaner, Puerto Rico, in a civil ceremony kept secret for 48 hours but approved by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board.

Marriage Revealed. Margaret Wright Bedford Bancroft, 28, dazzling blonde lioness of the undergo international set, Standard Oil (N.J.) millionheiress and partypatetic hostess (sitdown dinner for 60); and Prince Charles d’Arenberg, 55, scion of one of France’s first families, whom Peggy once dubbed “my little mouse”; she for the second time, he for the first; in Massachusetts, Dec. 29.

Died. Parke Carroll, 56, former sports editor of the old Kansas City Journal-Post, who was fired as general manager of the Kansas City Athletics six weeks ago, when the new owner replaced him with Cleveland’s Frank Lane; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo.

Died. Millard Evelyn (“Glad”) Tydings, 70, whose acid tongue, during his 35 years as a Maryland state representative, U.S. Congressman and four-term Senator, made him enemies ranging from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe McCarthy; of pneumonia; on his 550-acre Oakington estate near Havre de Grace, Md. A maverick Democratic Senator who said in 1933 that “If I can’t vote my sentiments, to hell with this job,” Tydings voted in favor of reciprocal trade and foreign aid, against such domestic New Deal projects as AAA and NRA, which he called “alphabetical monstrosities.” Though marked for purge by F.D.R. in 1938, Tydings won re-election by a record plurality, ranked third in senatorial service by July 1950 when, during two hours of inspired invective, he summarized a subcommittee report labeling McCarthy’s charge of Communist penetration of the State Department “a fraud and a hoax” on the U.S. public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from his last political scrap because of ill health.

Died. Archibald Thompson (“Doc”) Davison, 77, small, spry conductor of the famed Harvard Glee Club from 1912 to 1933, who sounded a serious note throughout the collegiate musical world by substituting Mendelssohn for Mrs. Casey’s Boarding House in the club’s repertory, led the troupe on a European tour in 1921 and in 35 concerts with the Boston Symphony; of uremia; in Brant Rock, Mass.

Died. Anna E. Erickson, in her early 80s, widow of Alfred W. Erickson, who became a pioneer of modern U.S. advertising and co-founder of McCann-Erickson,Inc.; of a stroke; in New York City. Heir to a collection of art masterpieces at her husband’s death in 1936, Mrs. Erickson by her own death releases for sale a combined group of paintings valued at $1,000,000. It includes Rembrandt’s famed Aristotle with the Bust of Homer, Frans Hals’s Portrait of Man with Herring, Hans Holbein’s Portrait of George Neville, Carlo Crivelli’s Madonna and Child.