Milestones, Aug. 11, 1947

Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 33, tiger-shooting, deep-sea-fishing, airplane-flying, labor unioneer (Newspaper Guild) daughter of the late publisher of the New York Daily News; and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 50, whose specialty is such uncomfortably detailed pictures of decay as Into The World There Came A Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray he painted for MGM: a son, their first child (she had two by her previous marriage); in Chicago. Name: Adam. Weight: 7 lbs. 11 oz.

Married. Herbert Marshall, 57, of the cinema and radio; and Patricia (“Boots”) Mallory, 35, onetime Ziegfeld beauty; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Died. Joseph (“Big Joe”) Saltis, 62, onetime Chicago beer baron in competition with Al Capone, a way of life that earned him barrels of freely-spent money and two bullets in the neck; of a liver ailment; in the charity ward of a Chicago hospital.

Died. Frances Violet Stewart Thomas, 66, tall, gracious wife of Socialist Norman Thomas, who spent most of her time raising five children and prizewinning cocker spaniels and who once ran a tearoom; of a heart attack; in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

Died. Tomás Berreta, 71, President of Uruguay; after an operation; in Montevideo (see LATIN AMERICA).

Died. Leo Stein, 75, expatriate critic of the arts whose accomplishments (he was one of the first to recognize Matisse and Picasso) were overshadowed by the literary fireworks set off by sister Gertrude, with whom he had not been on speaking terms from 1920, until her death last year; of cancer; at Settignano, Italy.

Died. Harry Bartow Hawes, 77, one-time Representative and later Senator from Missouri, co-author of the Hawes-Cutting (Philippine Independence) Act and a great booster for conservation of the wild game he loved to hunt; of a heart ailment; in Washington, D.C.

Died. José Pardo y Barreda, 83, twice President of Peru (1904-08, 1915-19), son of Manuel Pardo, the nation’s first civilian President; in Lima, Peru.

Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, 86, who went to work as a pit boy in an English coal mine at the age of nine, later moved to Australia where he was one of the early members of the New South Wales Labor Party, then turned to the Right and rose from the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14); of a heart ailment; in Sydney.