Milestones, Nov. 18, 1946

Born. To Celeste Holm, 27, blithe-spirited musicomedienne (Bloomer Girl, Oklahoma!), now 20th Century-Fox’s rising star (Three Little Girls in Blue), and third husband A. Schuyler Dunning, 36, American Airlines executive: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Daniel. Weight: 6 Ibs. .

Engaged. Mary Churchill, 24, youngest of Winston’s three daughters, who rose from private to junior commander (U.S. equivalent: captain) in Britain’s ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service), served as her father’s aide at the 1943 Quebec Conference; and Captain Christopher Soames, 26, Assistant Military Attache at the British Embassy in Paris; in London.

Married. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 63, Utah’s scholarly, Japanese-speaking U.S. Senator (since 1932), who as chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee has been a leading proponent of Army-Navy merger; and Ethel Evans, his 44-year-old secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Salt Lake City.

Died. The Marchioness of Anglesey, 63, artist daughter of the Duke of Rutland, who more than a generation ago so charmed the Court of Edward VII that Queen Alexandra called her “the most beautiful girl in the Kingdom”; in London.

Died. Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 74, onetime research engineer who invented and spent his life developing a successful turbosupercharger for airplane and automobile engines, received belated recognition during World War II when America’s Superforts, equipped with his supercharger, climbed to unprecedented heights, were given an insuperable advantage over enemy air forces; in Lynn, Mass.

Died. Helena Sturtevant, 74, grand old lady of Newport, R.I.’s art colony, whose paintings were exhibited at the town’s Art Association, and whose etchings are represented in New York City’s Public Library; in Newport. ”

Died. Gabriel Wells, 85, onetime penniless Hungarian immigrant who won fame & fortune as bibliophile and bibliopole; in Manhattan. Most famous transaction: purchase of an imperfect Gutenberg Bible, which he sold book by book (Genesis brought $5,100) and leaf by leaf ($150-$500 a page).

Died. Baron Hayter (born: George Hayter Chubb), 98, frail son of a locksmith who built his family’s tiny business into the famed Chubb & Sons’ Lock and Safe Co., Ltd., in 1927 was raised to the peerage, became a director of the life insurance company that once refused him a policy because of his ill health, lived to be Britain’s oldest peer; in London.