Milestones, Oct. 7, 1935

Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, U. S. Wartime draft dodger resident in Germany, and Bertha Bergdoll: a daughter, their fifth child, the first born in the U. S.; in Philadelphia.

Married. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 58, famed British astrophysicist, cosmologist, popularizer (The Mysterious Universe, Through Space and Time); and Susi Hock, 24, comely Viennese organist. Sir James's U. S.-born first wife, who died in 1934, left him a fortune of $475,000.

Divorcing. Dorothy Gish, stage and screen actress: James Rennie, actor (Murder at the Vanities) ; in Bridgeport, Conn. She testified that he...

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