Milestones, Sep. 16, 1940

Married. David Rockefeller, 25, sober, hulking, moon-faced youngest son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; and Margaret McGrath, 24, comely socialite; in Bedford, N.Y.

Sued for divorce. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., 28, four-times-married sportsman and sugar tycoon; by Emily Hall von Romberg Spreckels, 28, comely onetime baroness; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Charging brutality and shame brought on by his Nazi associations, Spreckels' wife complained that he had once flaunted a swastika in a Manhattan cafe.

Divorced. William Vincent Astor, 48, Manhattan real-estate tycoon, yacht host to President Roosevelt, and socialite son of the late (Titanic) Colonel John Jacob Astor; by Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor,...

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