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Milestones, may 18, 1959

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Born. To Philip Crosby, 24, son of Bing, twin brother of Dennis, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 20: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Dixie Lee (after Philip’s late mother). Weight: 5 lbs. 13 oz.

Married. Julie Andrews, 23, peaches-and-cream-cheeked British star of My Fair Lady and The Boy Friend, whose airy musicomedy elegance showed through both cockney grime and flapper apparel; and Scene Designer Tony Walton, 24, a childhood sweetheart; in Weybridge, England.

Married. Vivian Elaine, 37, wide-eyed actress (“Miss Adelaide” of Guys and Dolls on both stage and screen); and Milton R. Rackmil, 56, president of Decca Records and Universal Pictures; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Edward Owen Cerf, 41, assistant managing editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war’s end had risen to the rank of major.

Died. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, president of the Fuller Brush Co., son of the founder (who is now chairman of the board); in an auto accident that also killed his wife; near Hawthorne, Nevada. At 30, Fuller took command of the company’s 108 branches and 6,500 dealers, introduced the Fuller Brush Woman to sell soaps and cosmetics.

Died. Donald Aubrey Quarles, 64, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense; of a heart attack; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Crisanto Cardinal Luque, 70, aggressive, socially conscious Roman Catholic cardinal, first to be named in Colombia, who acidly attacked and helped unseat Colombia’s corrupt Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953-57); of a lung hemorrhage; in Bogotá, Colombia.

Died. Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Viscount Templewood, 79, longtime British diplomat, who excelled in tennis, often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to Mussolini. Forced by public outrage to resign, he bounced back to office under Neville Chamberlain, backed Chamberlain’s Munich appeasement because he felt it would intimidate Russia. “He passes,” someone said, “from experience to experience, like Boccaccio’s virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition.”

Died. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, 80, aristocratic, stiff-collared Argentine diplomat, only South American to win the Nobel Peace Prize (in 1936, for his work in ending the three-year-old Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay); of influenza; in Buenos Aires.

Died. Myron C. Taylor, 85, industrialist, philanthropist, representative to the Vatican for Presidents Roosevelt and Truman ; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Ready to retire at 50 from a successful business career as a textile executive, Taylor was launched on a second career by his friend J. P. Morgan, who urged him to go to work for U.S. Steel. He cleared the corporation of a $340 million bonded debt in time to withstand the Depression. Famed for his diplomacy in labor relations, Episcopalian Taylor was appointed F.D.R.’s special envoy to the Vatican in 1939, a post he served for ten years with dignity and tact in spite of Protestant carping at home.

Died. Sir Ibrahim, 85, fabulously wealthy, fun-loving Sultan of Johore; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, one of France’s eight cardinals, member of the French Academy, author (The Life and Passion of Jeanne d’Arc), worker in the French Resistance movement in World War II; of influenza; in Le Mans, France, where he served as archbishop.

Died. William Ford, 87, younger brother of the original Henry; of a heart attack; in Detroit. William resembled brother Henry in appearance only. When Henry left for the city, William stayed on the farm. “I have no use for cars except as something to ride in,” said William, and when his tractor sales agency went bankrupt in the Depression, he was as good as his word, asked no help from his multimillionaire brother and got none.

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