Milestones, Apr. 5, 1937

Married. Lyla M. Townsend, daughter of Delaware's Senator John G. Townsend Jr.; and Prew Savoy, Washington attorney; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City; in the Mayor's office.

Divorced. Hiram Bingham, 61, one-time (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained...

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