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Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939

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Born. To Cinemactress Maureen (“Tarzan’s bride”) O’Sullivan and Scenarist John Farrow: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael Damion Farrow.

Born. To Robin (“Bazooka Bob”) Burns, homely, hayseed film clown, and Harriet Foster Burns, his second wife; their second (his third) child, an 8½-lb. boy. Name: Robin Burns Jr. Christening gift: a baby bazooka.

Engaged. Jane Howard, daughter of Scripps-Howard’s Roy Wilson Howard; and Lieut. Albert Carson Perkins, U.S.N.; in Manhattan.

Married. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 47, University of Toronto professor, who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin; and Henrietta Ball, 27, laboratory technician; his second, her first; in Toronto.

Married. Burnice Smith, 25, granddaughter of the super-social George Washington Kavanaughs; and Bandmaster Eddie LeBaron (real name: Eduardo Alba-lini de Gastine), 32; after eloping to Yonkers, N. Y. Snobbed Grandfather Kavanaugh: “We don’t like it a bit. It doesn’t fit in with our social background.”

Married. Russell Billiu Long, 20, son of the late demagogue, Huey Pierce Long; and Katherine Mae Hattic, 19, junior at Louisiana State University; in Baton Rouge, La.

Died. Ira Noel Mattison, 46, Glastenbury, Vermont’s* last male inhabitant (total voters: three Mattisons), who held 14 offices, ranging from State Representative to Fire Warden, until the Legislature abolished the town government; in Glastenbury.

Died. Murdo Mackenzie, 89, Scottish-born president of the American National Livestock Association; in Denver. Old-time Western rancher, Mackenzie became king of U. S. cattlemen, operated 1,000,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: “You said you’d give me 20 minutes and you’ve done all the talking. Now you’ll keep your word and listen to me.” Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: “I’m too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me.” His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which brought cattlemen fixed interstate freight rates.

Died. Frank Cross-the-River, 90, old-time Caughnawaga Indian lacrosse player, member of an Indian lacrosse team which went to England, played before Queen Victoria in 1886; in Caughnawaga (Indian reservation), Quebec.

* One of Vermont’s two one-family towns. The other: Somerset (controlled by 20 members of the Taylor family).

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