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Milestones, Oct. 10, 1960

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Marriage Revealed. Land Morrow Lindbergh, 23, third son of the aviator and now a graduate anthropology student at Stanford University; and Susan Miller, 21, a Stanford junior; in San Diego, last August.

Divorce Revealed. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 66, Philadelphia playboy and World War I draft dodger, who fled to Germany in 1920, came home in 1939 and served almost five years in Army prisons during World War II; by German-born Berta Franck Bergdoll, 52; after 34 years of marriage, eight children (including Son Alfred, a Korean War draft dodger); in Charles City, Va., last April.

Died. E. (for Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst, 78, fire-breathing feminist and daughter of Britain’s pioneering Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst; of a heart attack; in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Along with her mother and late sister Christabel, Sylvia invoked violence in the fight for women’s suffrage between 1903 and 1918, led her militant followers in rock-tossing sorties against the Houses of Parliament, assaults upon 10 Downing Street. She landed in prison at least 15 times, went on hunger strikes to get out, promptly got tossed back into a cell as soon as her strength returned. After Britain’s women began to win the vote in 1918, Sylvia was not long without other causes. She flirted with the triumphant Russian Bolsheviks, fought fascism, ground out radical books and pamphlets, even ran a cooperative toy factory. Ever a champion of unwed mothers, she wilfully became one herself at the age of 45, would say only that her child’s father, an Italian author, was “an old and dear friend whom I have loved for years.” Her final crusade: restoration of Haile Selassie to Ethiopia’s throne after the Italian invasion forced him into exile in 1936. After World War II, she and her love child, Richard, settled in Addis Ababa, where her son lectures at University College. Grateful for her long fight in his behalf, the reascendent Emperor rewarded Old Warrior Pankhurst with a singularly appropriate decoration—the medal of Queen of Sheba, First Class.

Died. Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, 82, mother of Mamie Eisenhower; of a stroke; in Denver. Daughter of Swedish immigrants, she was born in Boone, Iowa, at 16 married Meat Packer John Doud (who died in 1951). A witty woman with a tart tongue, she moved to Denver in 1904, lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was “Min”—after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, “Oh, Min!” when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, “Oh, Mother!” to his wife. She lived in the White House from the time of Ike’s first inauguration until 1957, when she returned to Denver in failing health.

Died. Emily Price Post, 86, who emerged as the undisputed arbiter of U.S. etiquette (“the science of living”) during her long life as a book, newspaper and radio counselor on manners; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Divorced and left with two small sons to support in 1906, Emily turned to writing tinseled novels of high life, was goaded by her publisher in 1922 to turn out Etiquette, the Blue Book of Social Usage. It went into 89 printings, netted her lifetime royalties of about $300 a week. An apt description of Emily Post’s career was once supplied by Son Edwin: “Mamma started out writing to tell the new rich how to behave like nice people. Now she is telling the new poor how to be gracious without servants.”

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