Milestones, Apr. 7, 1947

Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah.

Married. Richard E. Byrd, 24, son of Senator Harry Byrd, nephew and namesake of the homecoming Admiral; and Helen Bradshaw, 24, blueblooded Boston descendant of famed...

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