MILESTONES

Born. To Barbara Bel Geddes Schreuer, 22, pretty actress daughter of future-gazing Designer Norman Bel Geddes; and Carl Schreuer, 26, marine electrical engineer: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Susan. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Stephanie Pell, 20, Paris-born daughter of U.S. diplomat Robert Thompson Pell (now in Paris as SHAEF assistant political officer); and one Roger Dechame, 23, a sailor in the French Navy, whom she met while christening the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, named for the historic Revolutionary fort on the Pell's upstate New York estate; in Manhattan's French Huguenot Church of Saint-Esprit.

Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold.

Married. Major General Ralph Royce, 54, muscular ex-commander of the U.S.French First Tactical Air Force in France, onetime Chief of Staff for Air, Southwest Pacific, who led the first aerial squadron in France in 1917, the first Australia-based bombing of Japs on Luzon in 1942; and Agnes Berges, 36, ex-Manhattan hotel executive and overseas Red Cross worker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Detroit.

Divorced. Carl Van Doren, 59, crop-haired Manhattan literary critic (Mutiny in January, Benjamin Franklin); by his second wife, Jean Wright Gorman Van Doren, 44; after six years of childless marriage; in Reno.

Died. John Syme, 73, indefatigable one-man crusade against British officialdom; in London. As a police inspector in 1909, he refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned him out.

Died. Charles D. ("King of the Arctic") Brower, 83, rich Alaskan whaling and trading bigwig, famed host whom the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post were flying to visit when their plane crashed in 1935; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska.

-Not to be confused with Manhattan Litterateurs Mark Van Doren (Carl's brother), Irita Van Doren (Carl's first wife).

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