Milestones, Nov. 10, 1952

Married. Jane Wyman, 38, Oscar-winning cinemactress (The Lost Weekend, The Glass Menagerie, Johnny Belinda) ; and Fred Karger, 36, Hollywood composer and orchestra leader; she for the third time (her second: Cinemactor Ronald Reagan), he for the second; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Died. Dixie Lee Crosby, 40, Tennessee-born cinemactress (Fox Follies of 1929, Love in Bloom, Redheads on Parade) who in 1930 married fen obscure singer at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove named Harry ("Bing") Crosby; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. At the time she married Bing, newspapers headlined, DIXIE LEE MARRIES BAND SINGER, and a Hollywood producer warned: "You will have...

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