Milestones, Apr. 21, 1947

Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.

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