Milestones, Nov. 23, 1953 | TIME

Born. To Virginia Mayo, 30, wide-eyed blonde cinemactress (Devil’s Canyon), and Cinemactor Michael O’Shea, 47 (Fixed Bayonets): their first child (his third), a daughter. Name: Mary Catherine. Weight: 7 Ibs. 3 oz.

Married. Marjorie Jackson, 22, Olympic women’s 100 and 200-meter dash champion; and Peter Nelson, 22, member of Australia’s Olympic cycling team; in Lithgow, Australia.

Married. Randolph Adolphus (“Randy”) Turpin, 25, British middleweight boxing champion; and Gwyneth Price, 27, daughter of a Welsh farmer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Wellington, England.

Married. Jacques Piccard, 31, Swiss deep-sea diver, who, with his famed father, Auguste Piccard, descended to a record 10,330 feet in a steel “bathyscaphe” into the Tyrrhenian Sea (TIME, Oct. 12); and Mary Claude Maillard, 24, a piano teacher; in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Divorced. By Eleanor Parker, 31, cinemactress (Detective Story, Scaramouche): her second husband, Hollywood Producer Bert Friedlob, 41 (The Star); after nearly seven years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. Sonny Tufts, 42, hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.), blond cinemactor (Swell Guy, Glory at Sea); by Barbara Lorayne Tufts, 40; after nearly 15 years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood.

Died. lies Brody, 54, author of the gossipy, bestselling biography, Gone With the Windsors; of a coronary occlusion; in San Francisco.

Died. Lieut. General James Tillinghast (“Nuts”) Moore, 58, oldtime (since 1921) aviator, who led the First Marine Air Wing in the Southwest Pacific in World War II, and later commanded all Marine aircraft in the Pacific; of a heart attack; in Columbia, S.C.

Died. Alfreda Theodore Strandberg Morse, 63, Tin Pan Alley lyricist who collaborated with her composer-husband, the late Theodore Morse, produced some of the nation’s alltime popular favorites (Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here; Siboney); in White Plains, N.Y .

Died. Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, 71, noted physicist, who first developed and demonstrated television (1927), color television (1929), three-dimensional movies (1933) and photo-transmission by wire (1924); in Upper Montclair, N.J.

Died. Metropolitan Makary, 87, Presiding Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Catholic Church (membership: 30,000); in Manhattan.

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