Milestones, Sep. 25, 1944

Born. To Michele Morgan, 24, green-eyed French cinemactress ; and cinemactor Gerard William Marshall, 27, medically discharged from the Army six months ago : their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael William. Weight: 8 lbs. 9 oz.

Born. To Cyrus Lee Sulzberger, 31, New York Times Middle East correspond ent, nephew of the Times’s Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; and his Greek wife, Marina Tatiana Lada Sulzberger, 25: their first child, a daughter; in Cairo, Egypt. Name : Marina Beatrice.

Married. Marjorie Johnson Carter, 22, daughter of Hollywood Writer-Producer Nunnally Johnson (Casanova Brown, TIME, Sept. 18); and Private Gene Fowler Jr., 27, of the Army Signal Corps, son of Johnson’s good friend, Author Gene Fowler (Goodnight, Sweet Prince); each for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Navy Air Forces Lieut. Jay Gould III, 24, great-grandson of the late great manipulator Jay Gould; and Jennifer Beryl Bruce, 19, daughter of veteran British character actor Nigel Bruce; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. John Jacob Astor III, 32, outsized second son of the late Colonel Astor (drowned on the Titanic in 1912); and Gertrude Gretsch, 21, Manhattan post-debutante; he for the second time; in Manhattan.

Killed in Action. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 27, Protestant husband of ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy’s daughter Kathleen (married last May in a Chelsea registry office, without Catholic consent), Captain in the Coldstream Guards, heir to the Duchy of Devonshire; in France. The Marchioness has been in the U.S. since August when her oldest brother, Joseph Jr., was killed in action.

Died. Navy Chief Specialist Gus Sonnenberg, 44, onetime pretender to professional wrestling’s hypothetical crown; of leukemia; in the Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital. Cauliflower-eared Sonnenberg played football for Dartmouth and the Providence Steamrollers, taught in Detroit high schools, introduced football’s flying tackle to wrestling, topped most of his ringmates in grunting & groaning. He once lost a “championship” when a moth flew into his mouth and choked him.

Died. John McMullin, 54, chichi adopted son and escort of Cosmopolite Lady Mendl, European feature writer for Vogue until his repatriation in 1940, male stylist (The Well Dressed Man, As Seen By Him); after a heart attack; in San Francisco.