Milestones, May 13, 1946

Born. To Brenda Marshall (real name: Ardis Ankerson), 29, grave-eyed cinemactress (The Sea Hawk), and her second husband, William Holden (real name, Bill Beedle Jr.), cinema juvenile (Golden Boy) and wartime Army lieutenant: their second (her third) child, a son. Name: Scott Porter. Weight: 6 Ibs. 9 oz.

Born. To Benny Goodman, 36, swing-man-symphonist, and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt: their second child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Benjie (“after her father”). Weight: 4 Ibs. 12 oz.

Married. Joan Fontaine, 28, minx-eyed cinemactress; and William Dozier, 38, RKO production executive; both for the second time; in Mexico City.

Divorced. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire yachtsman-ichthyologist; by Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt, 29, horsewoman, crack shot; after 10½ years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami. Grounds: desertion.

Died. Charles William Anderson Scott, 43, British war (I) ace who thrice broke the England-Australia flight record (1931-32-34); winner of the Harmon Trophy as the best aviator of 1934, winner of the 1936 Portsmouth-Johannesburg air race; by his own hand (gunshot); in Germany.

Died. William M4 (“Little Bill”) Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the ’20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running.

Died. Curtice N. Hitchcock, 54, president and co-founder of Reynal & Hitchcock, Manhattan publishers of best-seller Strange Fruit and Pulitzer-Prize winning V-Letter and Other Poems; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.

Died. Zara du Pont, 77, peppery maverick of the munitions-making clan, longtime champion of child welfare, women’s suffrage, and the labor movement; in Boston.

Died. Dr. Simon Flexner, 83, world-famed pathologist who discovered the organisms which cause bacillary dysentery, influenza, spinal meningitis and polio; in Manhattan. Appointed director of the newly formed Rockefeller Institute in 1903, he stayed on the job 32 years, nursed the Institute from a scientific fledgling to an organization of worldwide scope and importance.