Milestones, Apr. 8, 1957

Married. Olga Fikotova, 24, dark-eyed Czechoslovakian Olympic discus-hurling champ (a record 176 ft. 1½ in.); and U.S. Olympic Team's Harold Connolly, 25, hammer-throw gold medalist and world-record holder (224 ft. 10½ in.); in Prague.

Married. Edward H. Litchfield, 42, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, educator, businessman (TIME, Jan. 7), who was called to Germany by General Lucius D. Clay to direct the postwar program to re-establish German political unity; and Mary Carolyn Morrill, 31, sometime Government employee; he for the second time, she for the first; in Hiawatha, Kans.

Died. Eugene (Gene) Lockhart, 64, versatile character actor of stage (The Handy...

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