Milestones, Nov. 24, 1941

Birthday. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 59; in Washington, D.C. He went to work as usual.

Married. John Clark Burgard Jr., 18, stepson of Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett; and Jean Ewing Duff, 18; in Wilton, Conn.

Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years, they appeared in opposite corners of a public ring last summer when Interventionist Dorothy learned Lewis was...

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