Milestones, Nov. 14, 1949

Born. To David Rose, 39, conductor-composer (Holiday for Strings), onetime husband of Cinemactresses Martha Raye and Judy Garland;* and Betty Bigelow Rose, 21, ex-Manhattan model: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Melanie Lee. Weight: 61bs.

Married. John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), now a public relations man for the Dutch government; and arty, brunette Virginia Daly Lunn, 33 ; he for the third time (he was divorced last August by Anna Roosevelt), she for the second; in The Hague.

Divorced. Jackie Cooper, 27, onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ); by June Home Cooper, 30, onetime cinema starlet; after five years of marriage, one child ; in Los Angeles.

Died. Michael Joseph Kennedy, 52, veteran Tammany wheelhorse; in an airplane crash; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A onetime Democratic Representative from New York (1938-42), Kennedy became Tammany sachem in 1942, was ousted two years later after bigtime Gambler Frank Costello admitted that he had used money and influence to swing Kennedy’s appointment.

Died. Jessica Garretson Finch Cosgrave, 78, early suffragette, founder and president (since 1900) of Manhattan’s longtime fashionable Finch Junior College for girls (yearly tuition and board: $2,200); in Manhattan.

Died. Solomon R. Guggenheim, 88, last of the seven Guggenheim brothers who, with their father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world’s largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family’s international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan’s avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting.

Died. William D. Mahon, 88, veteran labor leader and oldtime crony of the late Samuel Gompers in organizing the A.F.L., for 53 years (until he retired in 1946) president of what is now the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America; in Detroit.

* For other news of Judy Garland, see CINEMA.

† The others: Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Foundation (for social welfare), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (fellowships in arts, science and letters), Murry & Leonie Guggenheim Foundation (for dental clinics).