Milestones, Jan. 15, 1951

Married. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 40, wartime R.A.F. ace, onetime Tory M.P., son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon, Lord Beaverbrook; and Violet de Trafford, 24, baronet's daughter; he for the third time, she for the first; in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Died. Richard Hart, 35, actor of stage (The Happy Time), screen (Green Dolphin Street) and TV (Ellery Queen); of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan.

Died. Kenneth Burt Griffin, 43, Chicago radio voice (actor, announcer, master of ceremonies), familiar to serial fans as Vic Hardy of ABC's Jack Armstrong; of undetermined causes; in Chicago.

Died. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 45, who...

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