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Born. To Thomas Dubois Hormel, 24, heir to the Hormel (meat packing) millions, and Simone Mostovoy, 21, onetime Parisian ballerina: their first child, a daughter, first grandchild of the late Jay Hormel (see below); in Hollywood. Name: Michelle Victoria. Weight...
Born. To Mary Churchill Soames, 31, Sir Winston's youngest daughter, and Christopher Soames, 33, M.P. and the Prime Minister's parliamentary private secretary: their fourth child, second daughter (Churchill's ninth grandchild). Weight...
Born. To Crown Prince Asfa Wassan of Ethiopia, 37, and Crown Princess Medferiash Worq Abbebe, 30: their third child, first son, Emperor Haile Selassie's twelfth grandchild, second in line of succession to the throne. Name: to be announced, according to Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox custom, 40 days after birth. Weight...
Born. To Mary Spencer Churchill Soames, 29, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 31, Conservative M.P. for Bedford: their third child (and Churchill's eighth grandchild), a son; in Westerham, Kent. Weight...
...over his head. When he died at 77, his hair was black and he had "all his own teeth in his head, too-all except one. That'd been knocked out with a brick in a fight." Toward the end, he came to look at a newborn great-grandchild, "a puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers is goin' to be squirrels." His son, Thurber's grandfather, was hardly that. He showed his independence by having all his teeth capped with gold and, in his 60s, swallowing beach sand...