Milestones, Jun. 10, 1946

Born. To George Mansfield (Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia), 34, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Anglicized grandson, and the former Lady Brigid Guinness, 26, daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer (“Guinness is good for you”): their first child, a son; in Essex, England. Name: William Mansfield.

Born. To Luise Rainer, 34, two-Oscar cinemactress of the ’30s (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), and Robert Knittel, 30, Manhattan editor (Creative Age Press); their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Francesca. Weight: 8 Ibs. 5 oz.

Married. Captain the Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone, 28, first cousin of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth, former aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India; and the Hon. Jean Frances Gibbs, 26, Princess Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting, widow of a captain killed at Nijmegen in 1944; he for the first time, she for the second; in London. The royal family attended the wedding en masse, Princess Elizabeth as a bridesmaid.

Married. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, U.S.M.C., 43, pint-sized hero of Wake Island, who dryly denies that he ever radioed “Send us more Japs”; and Rachel Clarke Cooke, thirty-fiveish, ex-Junior Leaguer; he for the second time (his first wife died while he was in prison camp), she for the first; in Baltimore.

Divorced. By Maria Rasputin Bern, 45, animal-taming daughter of mad, murdered Grigory Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia: Gregory Bern (formerly Bernadsky), 44, electrical engineer; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Marshal Ion Antonescu, 63, premier and puppet führer of wartime Rumania; before a firing squad; at Jilava Prison near Bucharest. French-educated Antonescu, motivated more by hatred of Russia than by love for Germany, reduced Rumania to a Nazi satrapy, then tried in 1944 to conclude an armistice with the Western powers, failed, was trapped and imprisoned by King Michael.

Died. Mikhail Ivanovitch Kalinin, 70, longtime (1919-46) President of the U.S.S.R’., biographer of Stalin (1,000,000 copies issued); after long illness; in Russia. Peasant-born “Papa” Kalinin, most genuinely loved of Russia’s high command, led the great 1905 Putilov Works strike, served as a genial, goat-bearded front man for both Lenin and Stalin. Many Old Bolsheviks died at the hands of the Czarist and Communist secret police; some died in office. Kalinin was one of the first top men to beat the game: near blind and ailing, he retired last March, his party card unsullied and unperforated.