Milestones, Feb. 28, 1944

Married. Anne Moen Bullitt, 19, only child of Philadelphia's former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France William Christian Bullitt; and Army Staff Sergeant Caspar Wistar Barton Townsend, 23, of Philadelphia, a 1942 Yale graduate; in a surprise ceremony at Fort George G. Meade, Md. In October 1943 her father announced her engagement to Marine Lieut. Daniel Baugh Brewster Jr. of Brooklandville, Md. Mr. Bullitt's comment on the marriage: "What?"

Death Revealed. John Thomas Looney, 74, British Shakespearian scholar; early this month; in Swadlincote, England. The Looney theory that Shakespeare was Edward de Vere,...

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