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Milestones, Mar. 19, 1951

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Born. To Garry Davis, 29, stage & TV actor, who last year gave up being No. 1 World Citizen to apply for the U.S. citizenship he renounced in 1948, and Audrey Peters Davis, 22, former Hollywood dancer: their first child, a daughter. Name: Kristina Star. Weight: 7 Ibs. 4 oz.

Divorced. Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, 47, chief of Scotland’s Clan Campbell, who is currently engaged in the resurrection of a sunken 16th Century treasure ship (“I think the world is too drab; we could do with a little romance”—TIME May 15); by his second wife, Louise Clews Varreck Campbell, 45, who Charged adultery; after 15 years of marriage, two sons; in Edinburgh.

Died. Virgil Munday Chapman, 55, Democratic Senator from Kentucky since 1949, for 22 years before that a Representative from Kentucky’s Bourbon County, who generally voted with the Administration on foreign issues, against it on domestic ones; after a motor collision with a truck; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Ivor Novello (Davies), 58, Welsh-born British matinee idol, tunesmith and playwright (Careless Rapture, Perchance to Dream), best known in the U.S. fo Keep the Home Fires Burning; of a coronary thrombosis; in London.

Died. Marquis Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 76, a general under Franco in Spain’s 1936-39 civil war; after long illness; near Seville. The marquis was famed for only one military feat: outfoxing superior Loyalist forces in Seville, and easily taking the city. Mostly, he fought the war—and won his reputation—with nightly propaganda broadcasts (“The common people are swine . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live in”).

Died. Harold Bauer, 77, British-born concert pianist, who made his debut at nine as a violinist, switched to the piano at 20, became a U.S. citizen in 1921, made world concert tours for half a century, then retired and wrote about them in Harold Bauer: His Book (1948); of a heart ailment; in Miami.

Died. Kijuro Shidehara, 78, Japanese statesman; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. Shidehara, onetime Ambassador to Washington, was an advocate of peaceful expansion in a country overrun by military fanatics. Because he opposed Japan’s 1931 march on Manchuria, the warlords unseated him from the Foreign Ministry. After 14 years in retirement, he became Prime Minister for six months following World War II.

Died. Olga Evgenyevna Alliluyeva, mother-in-law of Joseph Stalin (her daughter, Nadezhda, his second wife, died in 1932); in Moscow.

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