Milestones, Mar. 30, 1953

Died. Gertrude Maynard Anderson, 48, Canadian-born exactress, and second wife of Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Maxwell (Both Your Houses, Winterset) Anderson; by her own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning) ; near New City, N.Y.

Died. Irene Bordoni, 59, French-accented singer-comedienne of the 1920s: of cancer; in Manhattan. She made a 1940 comeback on Broadway in Louisiana Purchase, more recently played Bloody Mary in a road company of South Pacific.

Died. Seth W. Richardson, 73, attorney and self-styled "lifelong, contentious Republican," who came under right-wing attack as the Truman-appointed chief of the Government's Loyalty Review Board...

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