Milestones, Oct. 25, 1954

Married. Mala Powers, 22, auburn-haired cinemactress (Outrage, Cyrano de Bergerac) who nearly died from a blood disease acquired in a 1951 Christmas entertainment tour in Korea; and Monte Vanton, 36, real estate broker; in Hollywood.

Died. Maurice Bedel, 69, French satiric novelist (Jerome: Sixty Degrees North Latitude, The New Arcadia], winner (in 1927) of the Goncourt Prize, chronicler in his prewar novels of the evils of Fascism and Naziism; of uremia; in Chatellerault, France.

Died. Theodore Lyman, 79, retired Harvard physicist and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society; in Cambridge, Mass. A pioneer...

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