Milestones: Milestones: Aug. 21, 1939

Married. Henry Browne Wallace, 23, older son of the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, and Florence Kling, 20, coed; in Des Moines, Iowa.

Married. Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided...

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