Milestones, Dec. 10, 1945

Born. To Brenda Diana Duff Frazier (“Glamor Girl”) Kelly, 24, whose raven-haired, cream-smooth beauty helped to make her 1938’s No. 1 debutante; and John Sims (“Shipwreck”) Kelly, 35, onetime part-owner of professional football’s Brooklyn Dodgers: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Brenda Victoria. Weight : 7 lbs. 5 oz.

Married. Bette Davis, 37, starey, brainy cinemactress; and William Grant Sherry, 31, pugilist turned painter; she for the third time, he for the first; in Riverside, Calif.

Married. Emily (“Micky”) Hahn, 40, freethinking, cigar-smoking, best-selling authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum, China to Me); and Major Charles Boxer, 41, Britain’s Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941 and war-long Jap captive, father of Emily’s four-year-old daughter Carola; she for the first time,* he for the second; in New Haven, Conn. Said Bride Emily: “I believe in the law, marriage and monogyny. . . . Every child needs a father who is at home. If Charles had died in prison camp I would have married some one else.”

Married. Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, fiftyish flapper with an apparently perpetual patent of nubility; and Anthony Easton, fortyish, wealthy, British-born inventor (automatic radio distress signal); she for the fifth time (and last, she said), he for the second; in Manhattan.

Died. Dwight Filley Davis, 66, Secretary of War under Coolidge, Governor General of the Philippines under Hoover, threetime (1899-1901) national doubles tennis champion (paired with Holcombe Ward) who donated the famed and much-coveted Davis Cup; after long illness; in Washington.

Died. José Maria Sert, 69, muralist in the grandiose manner (his best known works adorn the League of Nations council chamber, the main lobby of Manhattan’s RCA Building, the Waldorf-Astoria Sert Room); in Barcelona.

Died. Beatrice (“Advice to the Lovelorn”) Fairfax (real name: Marie Manning Gasch), 70, the first journalistic heartmender; of a heart attack; in Washington. The 1898 brain child of 20-year-old Sob Sister Marie Manning and the late Hearstling Arthur Brisbane, “Advice” soon was a must for 200 papers. Marie married, others took over. But 1929 sent her back to title, typewriter and text: “Dry your eyes, roll up your sleeves and dig for a practical solution.”

*Not counting a Chinese marriage to Chinese Poet and Publisher Sinmay, which does not count legally in the U.S. and Britain.