Milestones, Sep. 7, 1953

Married. William C. (for Creed) Wampler, 27, newspaperman turned Republican Congressman from Virginia, and youngest member of Congress; and Mary Elizabeth Baker, 22, pretty, blue-eyed daughter of Tennessee's Republican U.S. Representative Howard H. Baker; in Huntsville, Tenn.

Divorced. By Ella Fitzgerald, 35, buxom Negro jazz songstress (A Tisket, A Tasket): her second husband, Bass Fiddle Player Ray Brown, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Nicolai Berezowsky, 53, prize-winning Russian-born composer (Symphony No. 4 and the children's opera, Babar the Elephant) and veteran guest conductor; of undetermined...

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