Milestones, Jan. 26, 1953 | TIME

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Born, To Lucille Ball, 41, red-haired comedienne of screen and television (I Love Lucy), and Cuba-born Actor Desi Arnaz (real name: Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III), 35; their second child first son; in Hollywood. Name: Desiderio Alberto IV. Weight: 8 lbs 9 oz. (see RADIO & TV).

Married. Henry Junkins (“Bob”) Topping, 39, nightclubbing tin-plate heir; and brunette Mona Mae Moedl, 24, Sun Valley skating instructor; he for the fifth time (No. 4: Cinemactress Lana Turner) she for the second; in Salt Lake City.

Married. Constance Russell Winant 53, wealthy widow of John G. Winant onetime ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, and breeder of blue-blooded show terriers; and retired Navy Captain Marion Eppley, 69, wartime staff officer with Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and president of the Eppley Laboratory (precision measuring instruments) in Newport, R.I.; both for the second time (his first: the late EthelbertaRussell Eppley, sister of the bride); in Manhattan.

Died. Douglas Chandor, 55, wealthy portraitist of the high-ranked and highborn; of a cerebral hemorrhage in Weatherford, Texas. British-born Artist Chandor painted the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), Queen Marie of Rumania, President Hoover and his Cabinet, President Roosevelt (in 1935 and again a month before his death), Eleanor Roosevelt (the only painting she ever permitted), Winston Churchill (bought by Bernard Baruch for $25,000, plus a sketch of the artist by the posing Churchill), Queen Elizabeth and some 300 others.

Died. Richard Ranney Adams, 58 president since 1945 of Grace Line (one of the first and biggest U.S.-Latin America shippers—23 vessels), authority on ship design and construction; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Winchester Bennett, 75, retired president, grandson of the founder (Oliver Winchester) of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.; in Boynton Beach, Fla.

Died. Sir Edward Marsh, 80, scholar bachelor, longtime (1896-1937) British civil servant, who became known as “Whitehall’s perfect private secretary” for his service to Churchill, Asquith, Joseph Chamberlain and Malcolm MacDonald in London. Falling in with London’s literary crowd, “Eddie” Marsh established reputation as conversationalist, first-nighter art collector, translator of the odes of Horace and the fables of La Fontaine, autobiographer (A Number of People) and editor (1912-21) of five volumes of Georgian Poetry. For his service to the -rown and to letters, he was knighted in 1937 by George VI at a ceremony he forgot to attend until he was phoned for.

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