Milestones, Aug. 18, 1947

Born. To Anita Louise, 32, blonde cinemactress, and Producer Maurice (“Buddy”) Adler, 41: their first child, a girl. Weight: 6 lbs.

Married. Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, 26, of the Cellophane-Nylon-gunpowder dynasty, and Arminda Rea Dunning, 20, of New Jersey; in Manhattan.

Divorced. James Hilton, 46, plumpish, British-born, best-selling novelist (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon) turned Hollywood writer; by onetime Actress Galina Kopineck Hilton, 44 (who told the court: “. . . He could argue much better than I could”); after ten years, no children; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Eugene Ormandy, 47, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s balding, barrel-chested maestro; by onetime Harpist Steffy Goldner Ormandy, fiftyish; after 25 years, one child; in Reno.

Died. Peter Aitken, 35, auto-racing younger son of British Newsmagnate Lord Beaverbrook; of a heart attack; in Stockholm, where he was vacationing.

Died. Gerald (“Gerry”) McGeer, 59, bellicose Senator from British Columbia and Mayor of Vancouver, of a heart ailment; in Vancouver. For two years McGeer had been trumpeting warnings of War III, exhorting the U.S. and Canada to arm from the tip of Alaska to California because “the Northwest will become the Belgium of the future.”

Died. Princess Hermine, 59, who married Germany’s late exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, a year after the death of his Kaiserin, Augusta Victoria; reportedly of acute tonsilitis and a heart ailment; in Frankfurt an der Oder, Soviet zone of Germany. Soon after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess’ crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine’s tea), then decided to drop the investigation: “It is definitely a case for the German authorities . . . looks like a dizzy merry-go-round of family intrigue.”

Died. General Anton Ivanovich Denikin. 74, peasant-born onetime Imperial Russian Army officer, who in 1919 led his White troops in a drive through southern Russia to near victory over the Reds; of a heart attack; in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Died. Gipsy Rodney Smith, 87, British evangelist whose gently persuasive voice pulled hundreds of thousands of repentant sinners to camp meeting altars all over the world for five decades; of a heart attack; on board the U.S.-bound Queen Mary.