Milestones, Feb. 4, 1952

Divorced. By Cinemactress Betty (The Greatest Show on Earth) Hutton, 30: Camera Manufacturer Ted Briskin, 33, on charges of mental cruelty (i.e., Briskin made her "very, very nervous"); after six years of marriage, two daughters; in Los Angeles.

Died. Shri Hanwant Singh ("Funny Face") Bahadur, 28, Maharaja of Jodhpur, amateur magician, who was trying to perform a difficult political trick: persuading Indian voters to honor his past princely glory by electing him an independent member of both the national Parliament and his own Rajasthan state assembly (TIME, Jan. 14); in the crash of...

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