Milestones, Mar. 19, 1945

Married. Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 24, rugged, rusty-haired "one man army," Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis with assorted weapons in a single engagement); and plump brunette May Frances Boish, 19, whom he met last year when their home town Pittsburgh celebrated his homecoming; in Phenix City, Ala.

Married. Private Red Skelton, 31, limber-legged, extroverted radio and cinema comic; and Georgia Maureen Davis, 23, ex-photographer's model; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills. Second item on the bridegroom's furlough schedule: having his tonsils out.

Married. Catherine Vance Nimitz, 31, music-librarian, eldest of...

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