Milestones, Jul. 9, 1956

Born. To Sir Edmund Hillary, 36. New Zealand beekeeper and 1953 co-conqueror (with Tenzing, the Sherpa guide) of Mt. Everest, and Lady Hillary. 25: their second child, a daughter; in Auckland, New Zealand. Name: Sarah Louise.

Born. To Preston Sturges, 57, sometime Broadway playwright (Strictly Dishonorable), veteran movie writer-director (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek) and Fourth Wife Anne Nagle Sturges, 26: their second child (his third), a son; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Name: Thomas Preston. Weight: 5 Ibs. 2 oz.

Married. Marilyn Monroe, 30, cinemactress, and Arthur Miller, 40, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright (Death of a Salesman); she for the third time (her second: ex-Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio, he for the second; in White Plains, N.Y. (see PEOPLE).

Married. Kathleen Winsor, 37, best-selling novelist (Forever Amber, Star Money); and Paul Aldermandt Porter, 51, Washington lawyer, onetime New Deal bureaucrat (AAA, WFA, OES), last (1946) OPAdministrator, and chairman of FCC (1944-46); she for the fourth time, he for the second; in New Haven, Conn.

Married. James Roosevelt, 48, Democratic Congressman from California’s 26th District, eldest son and onetime secretary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Mrs. Gladys Irene Owens, 39, a secretary in his Washington office; both for the third time; in Los Angeles.

Died. Thomas Rust Underwood, 58, onetime (1951-52) Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky, twice (1948, 1950) elected U.S. Congressman from Kentucky’s Sixth (“Bluegrass”) District, longtime (since 1935) editor of the Lexington Herald (circ. 36,400); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky.

Died. Claude (“Tiny”) Thornhill, 63, longtime (1922-39) football coach at California’s Stanford University and mentor of three successive Rose Bowl teams; of a heart ailment; in Berkeley, Calif.

Died. Kinlock Christy (“Kacy”) Adams, 69, tough, tobacco-chewing aide, friend and confidant of U.M.W. Boss John L. Lewis (whom he called “Jack”), longtime (1920-36, 1940-53) editor of the United Mine Workers Journal (circ. 400,000) and the U.M.W.’s chief pressagent; after long illness; in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Died. Reinhold Moritzovich Glière, 81, prolific (more than 500 works) Russian composer (Ilya Murometz, The Red Poppy), onetime (1914-20) director of the Kiev Conservatory and composition professor (1920-42) at the Moscow Conservatory; in Moscow.