Milestones, Dec. 17, 1956

Married. Diana Lynn (real name: Dolores Loehr), 30, dimpled movie ingenue; and Mortimer Hall, 32, president and general manager of Hollywood radio station KLAC; both for the second time (his first: Cinema Siren Ruth Roman); in Tijuana, Mexico.

Died. James Crawford (Jimmy) Angel, 57, crash-scarred oldtime bush pilot who joined the Canadian Air Corps at 16 in World War I, afterward soldiered in China, stunted in Hollywood and in 1935 discovered Angel Fall, the world's highest (3,212 ft.) waterfall, while chasing down a gold mine over Venezuela; after six months in a coma following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was recuperating...

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