Milestones, Mar. 14, 1955

Divorced. Ed Wynn (real name: Isaiah Edwin Leopold), 68, lisping, giggling stage and TV comic and father of Cinemactor Keenan Wynn; by Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt, 50; after 8½ years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Lieut. General Francois Gonzales de Linares, 57, Inspector General of the French Army, commander of the French Far Eastern forces which smashed the 1952~53 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Died. Fernand Point, 58, 300-lb., 65-inch-girthed prince of French restaurateurs, owner of the Restaurant des Pyramides, famed gourmets' oasis...

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