Milestones: Dec. 22, 1961

Born. To Land Morrow Lindbergh, 24, third son of the aviator, and Susan Miller Lindbergh, 22: their first child, a daughter (whose arrival was so shrouded in secrecy —a family habit since the 1932 kidnaping of baby Charles Jr.—that early newspaper reports named her father as Land’s older brother Jon) ; in Portland, Ore.

Born. To Bobby Darin, 25, Bronx-born groaner (Mack the Knife), and Sandra Dee, 19, blonde, bubbly cinema starlet (Tammy Tell Me True): their first child, a son; in Hollywood.

Married. Henry Martin (“Scoop”) Jackson, 49, Democratic junior Senator from Washington long rated Capitol Hill’s most eligible bachelor; and Helen Eugenia Hardin, 28, fetching blonde former receptionist for New Mexico’s Senator Clinton Anderson; he for the first time, she for the second; in Albuquerque.

Married. Walter Prescott Webb, 73, gruff, poker-playing philosopher of the frontier, leading historian of the American West (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers); and former president of the American Historical Association; and Mrs. Terrell Dobbs Maverick, 60, widow of Texas’ late salty-tongued Congressman Maury Maverick; both for the second time; in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Divorced. By Jenny Ann (“Pia”) Lindstrom, 23, honey blonde daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom: Fuller Earle Callaway III, 29, heir to a Georgia textile fortune, whom Jenny charged with acts of extreme cruelty, including pushing her down a staircase “in front of guests”; after 22 months of marriage, no children; in San Francisco.

Died. Metropolitan Nikolai, 69, ambitious No. 2 prelate of the Russian Orthodox Church, a tireless purveyor of Soviet propaganda who peppered his worldwide peregrinations with anti-American oratory, was once identified as a Soviet state security agent; of a heart attack; in Moscow.

Died. William Ellsworth Hoy, 99, baseball’s oldest former major leaguer who between 1888 and 1902 played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed “Dummy” by his teammates.

Died. Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses, 101, famed U.S. primitive painter; of what her doctor described as “just wearing out”; in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (see ART).