Milestones, Aug. 22, 1955

Married. Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke), 26, eye-catching Hungarian-born movie siren (The Assassin); and Curd Jürgens, 39, balding Austrian cinemactor; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Schliersee, Germany.

Divorced. Gypsy Rose Lee (real name: Rose Louise Hovic), 41, longtime champion of the nearly bare facts; from Julio de Diego, 55, Spanish-born painter; after seven years of marriage, three of separation; in Reno.

Died. John Emil Peurifoy, 48, troubleshooting U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, and his younger son, Daniel Byrd, 9 (his older boy, Clinton, was badly hurt); in a road collision with a truck; near Hua Hin, Thailand (see...

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