Milestones, Mar. 2, 1942

Born. To Christine Cromwell White and Frederick White: a daughter; in Newport, R.I. Grandfather: 45-year-old James H. R. Cromwell, estranged husband of Doris Duke Cromwell.

Engaged. Indira Nehru, Oxford-graduate daughter of Indian Nationalist leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru; and Lawyer Pheroz Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma); in Bombay.

Married. Actress Beatrice Whitney Straight, niece of the late Harry Payne Whitney, daughter of New Republic Co-Founder Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst; and Louis Dolivet, a Free French leader in Manhattan; in Des Moines, Iowa.

Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil....

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