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Milestones, may 23, 1960

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Married. Russ Tamblyn, 25, film actor recently in torn thumb] and Elizabeth Kempton, 24, British show girl; he for the second time (“I think everyone should get married young and get divorced young”), she for the first; in Las Vegas.

Married. Don Blasingame, 28, speedy, pesky-hitting San Francisco Giants second baseman; and Sara Ann Cooper, 21, daughter of Walker Cooper, longtime National League catcher, now a coach for the Kansas City Athletics; in Reno.

Married. Anna Maria Moneta Caglio, 30, socialite dubbed the “black swan” by the Italian press while she was performing as a controversial, contradictory witness in the Wilma Montesi homicide case, which shook Italian governmental circles from 1954 to 1957; and Mario Ricci, 34, builder, student, playboy; in Florence.

Died. Aly Khan, 48, sportsman-playboy, son and father of Aga Khans; after automobile accident; in St. Cloud, France (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Maurice Schwartz, 69, founder, director and leading actor of New York’s Yiddish Art Theater, which from 1919 to 1950 produced about 150 plays—from Shakespeare to Sholom Aleichem—and such alumni as Paul Muni and Stella Adler; of a heart attack; in Petah Tikva, Israel.

Died. Lucrezia Bori, 72, Spanish-born (as Lucrecia Borjay Gonzalez de Riancho) Metropolitan Opera lyric soprano who began her Met career singing with Caruso, gave tender feeling to the roles of Mimi and Violetta, was a Met favorite for 24 years before retiring in 1936 while at her peak (“I want to finish while I am still at my best”); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Keyes Winter, 81, boyhood Indianapolis neighbor of Booth Tarkington and model for Penrod, who became a Manhattan lawyer and for 19 years a judge of New York City’s municipal court; of a heart attack; in Syosset, N.Y.

Died. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 86, philanthropist son of the two-fisted founder of the Standard Oil empire, father of New York’s Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller; of pneumonia and heart strain; in Tucson, Ariz, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Charles Rosenbury Erdman, 93, for 68 years a Presbyterian minister and church leader, who, during a doctrinal fight of the 1920s, served as a mediator between his own fundamentalist wing and the opposing liberal wing of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., in 1925 as moderator of the general assembly staved off a schism in the church; of heart disease; in Princeton, NJ.

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