Milestones, Oct. 11, 1943

Born. To Katherine (“Kay”) Stammers, 29, pretty British tennist, and Welsh Guards Lieut. Michael Menzies, wealthy peacetime stock broker: a daughter; in London.

Born. To Helen Jepson Dellera, 35, comely Pennsylvania-born soprano; and Walter Dellera, 30, her second husband, Elco (marine) engineer: their first child, a son, Riccardo (after his grandfather, the late Metropolitan Opera maestro Riccardo Dellera); in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 3 oz.

Engaged. Gunder (the Wunder) Hägg, 24, Swedish snatcher of the U.S. outdoor mile record (at 4:05.3); and Dorothy Nortier, 19, blonde attraction of her father’s Piedmont, Calif, restaurant; four weeks after Gunder sailed home. He met her when she played the accordion at a Swedish reception given for him in San Francisco.

Married. Sheila Cudahy, 23, only daughter of Chicago Packer Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (only son of the late founder); and Giorgio Pellegrini, 30, Italian-born accountant for the Cudahy Packing Co.; in Chicago.

Divorced. Leo Ernest (“Lippy”) Durocher, 37, resonant manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers; by Grace Loretta Dozier Durocher (Dress Designer “Carol King”), 40; after nine years of marriage (his first, her second); in St. Louis. She said that The Lip was “constantly of a nagging disposition,” asked no alimony.

Divorced. Herman Frederick Willkie, 53, Wendell Willkie’s elder brother, Distillers Corp.-Seagrams Ltd. vice president; by Gerri Baker Willkie, 41; after five years; in Covington, Ky.

Killed in Action. Commando Captain Lord Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 31, 6th Duke of Wellington, fifth-generation descendant of Waterloo’s victor; in a raid on northeastern Sicily. Army career man, veteran of Ethiopia, he inherited from his father titles that sounded the Napoleonic battle roll, some $1,000,000 in landed estates, the ancestral right of keeping his hat on in the King of Spain’s presence.

Died. Carl Edwards Johansson, 79, Swedish-born father of hair-splitting precision gauges; in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Be ore he was 32, the shaggy-browed toolmaker hand-forged and hand-polished blocks of steel so internally stressless, externally flawless that they could detect a machinist’s error to within 2,000,000ths of an inch (a 2,000,000th is to an inch as an inch is to 31.6 miles). Nicknamed “Jo” blocks, they made possible mass production’s interchangeability of parts.