Married. Private Mickey Rooney, 23, pint-sized cinemadolescent; and Betty Jane Rase, 18, blond, 5 ft. 7 in., Miss Birmingham of 1944, fifth placer in the 1944 Miss America competition; he for the second time; in Birmingham, Ala. Private Rooney wooed & won his beauty in a week, married her on a three-day pass, expected to ship overseas soon.
Divorced. Artie Shaw, 34, mercurial bandleader; by his fourth wife, Elizabeth Kern Shaw, 25, daughter of Composer Jerome Kern; after 2½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles.
Died. Josef Bürckel, 49, veteran Nazi Gauleiter in the Saar,...
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