Milestones: Feb. 3, 1961

Marriage Revealed. Hazel Scott, 40, Negro jazz pianist; and Ezio Bedin, 25, Swiss-born comedian; she for the second time, he for the first; in New York City on Jan. 19, eight weeks after she divorced Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell and six weeks after Powell married his pert Puerto Rican secretary.

Divorced. Arthur Miller, 45, playwright; by Marilyn Monroe, 34; after four years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico, on the ground of incompatibility. The decree, the judge warned solemnly, prohibited thrice-married Miss Monroe from remarrying "within the next 48 hours." She...

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