Milestones, Dec. 8, 1952

Married. Nancy Nugent, 19, actress (The Male Animal) and daughter of Elliott Nugent, Broadway actor-playwright-producer; and Francis de Béthencourt, 29, sometime cinemactor; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Died. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, 66, Australian nurse who discovered a new treatment for infantile paralysis (hot packs and massage); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Toowoomba, Australia (see MEDICINE).

Died. Elena, 79, ex-Queen of Italy, Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft....

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