Milestones, Dec. 29, 1958

Born. To Dennis Crosby, 24, Los Angeles disk jockey and sometime crooner, son of all-time Crooner Bing Crosby; and Pat Sheehan Crosby, 26, onetime showgirl: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 13 oz. Last week, Dennis Crosby also adopted Franz Nicholas Gregory von Duuglas-Ittu, 7, his wife’s son by a previous marriage.

Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 44, Governor of Maine and U.S. Senator-elect, first popularly elected Democratic Senator in Maine history, and Jane Gray Muskie, 31: their fourth child, third daughter; in Waterville, Me.

Married. Sheree North, 25, cooch alumna turned cinemactress; and Psychologist Gerhart Sommer, 30; both for the third time; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. By Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Maria Pierangeli), 26, Italian-born cinemactress: Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 30, Brooklyn-born crooning cinemactor; after four years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Wolfgang Pauli, 58, Swiss physicist, 1945 Nobel prizewinner for his work on atomic structure, World War II co-worker with Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; after surgery; in Zurich.

Died. Martene Windsor (Bill) Corum, 63, syndicated New York Journal-American sports columnist, president of Louisville’s Churchill Downs race track, network commentator for major boxing events and the World Series; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Bill Corum started out with the New York Times, went over to Hearst in 1925. That year he saw his first Kentucky Derby, from then on advertised the race so fondly in his columns that when Colonel Matt Winn died in 1949 Corum found that he had written his way into the presidency of Churchill Downs.

Died. Sir John Collings Squire, 74, British poet, critic, parodist, founder and editor (1919-34) of the now defunct London Mercury magazine; near Heathfield, England. Squire’s Mercury was an outlet for the work of such Squire friends as Robert Graves, Robert Bridges, Siegfried Sassoon. listed among its contributors Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, G. K. Chesterton. But the magazine ran onto financial reefs, disappointing Squire, who once wrote:

For me I never cared for fame;

Solvency was my only aim.

Died. Ada E. Foote Wrigley, about 90, widow of William Wrigley Jr., who minted millions from chewing gum, owned baseball’s Chicago Cubs; after eleven years in a coma; in Pasadena, Calif.