Milestones, Feb. 22, 1943

Married. Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 21, daughter of the late Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, literary symbol of the Jazz Age; and Naval Ensign Samuel Jackson Lanahan, 24; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, 48, asbestos-wealthy Manhattan playboy; by Billy Boze Manville, 20, his sixth; four months after marriage; in Reno. Her explanation of why she married him: "It was like a new job that somebody tells you nobody can hold. ... I thought I could do it where they couldn't."

Died. Pauline Mark Thurston, 33, third wife and widow of the late great Prestidigitator Howard Thurston, who nightly sawed her in halves...

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