Milestones, Mar. 17, 1947

Divorced. Oleg Cassini, 34, Hollywood dressmaker, erstwhile Russian count; by Gene Tierney, 26, sulky cinemactress, onetime (1938) Connecticut debutante; after six years, one child; in Los Angeles.

Died. Dr. Auguste Champetier de Ribes, 64, veteran French politician, president of the Council of the Republic (upper house of parliament in the Fourth Republic), head of France's prosecuting staff at the Nürnberg trials; of cancer; in Paris.

Died. John Joseph ("Jack") Cochran, 66, able, longtime (20 years) Representative from Missouri,* foe of Government waste (as chairman of the House Accounts Committee), sponsor of the "Lindbergh Law,"...

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