Milestones, Nov. 15, 1948

Born. To William Clay Ford, 23, and Martha Firestone Ford, 23, grandchildren of the late Automaker Henry Ford and Tiremaker Harvey Firestone: their first child, a daughter; in New Haven, Conn. Name: Martha. Weight: 6 Ibs. 5 oz.

Born. To Joan Fontaine, 31, cinemactress (Rebecca, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands), and second husband William Dozier, 40, Hollywood executive: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Deborah Leslie. Weight: 8 Ibs. 8 oz.

Married. Randolph Frederick William Spencer Churchill, 37, columnist and lecturer, only son of Winston; and June Osborne, 26, British socialite; he for the second time, she for the first; in London.

Died. Alvin Jacob (“Jake”) Powell, 39, rough & tumble onetime outfielder for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators; by his own hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball.

Died. Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 72, veteran South American explorer and ethnologist, who located the source of the Orinoco in Brazil and discovered the Cuiapo-Pihibi tribe in Colombia; of a heart ailment; in Huigra, Ecuador.

Died. George Ehret Ruppert, 73, younger brother of the late beer baron, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, and longtime vice president of the colonel’s New York Yankees (1915-45); in Manhattan.

Died. Albert Henry Stanley, first Baron Ashfield of Southwell, 73, rags-to-riches London transit mogul, President of the Board of Trade in Lloyd George’s World War I cabinet; following an operation; in London. Son of an English railway worker who emigrated to the U.S. in 1879, he started out at 14 as a messenger boy in the Detroit streetcar system, rose to be manager, returned to England in 1907 to reorganize London’s subways, finally (with the Labor government’s help) unified the city’s whole transport system into a single $1 billion public-owned corporation.

Died. Elizabeth Root Luce, 77, widow of the late Dr. Henry Winters Luce, prominent missionary educator in China (1897-1926), and mother of Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; after a long illness; in Haverford, Pa.

Died. Carl Thomas Anderson, 83, veteran cartoonist, who worked at it for 40-odd years and finally clicked with “Henry,” an egg-bald moppet; of a heart ailment; in Madison, Wis.