Milestones, Oct. 19, 1959

Married. Billy Martin, 31, Cleveland Indians second baseman; and Gretchen Ann Winkler, 24, Trans World Airlines hostess; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza), 38. golden-throated tenor who aspired to be a second Caruso but lacked the self-discipline to train his voice, went instead on a ten-year whirl of Hollywood, where he grossed $5,000,000 from films (The Great Caruso) and recordings (Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year) that sold more than a million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart...

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