Milestones, Oct. 24, 1938

Married. Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, 26, youngest son of Scotland's Premier Peer, like his eldest brother Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, a famed amateur boxer, airplane pilot, mountaineer; and 23-year-old Prunella ("Perfect Girl") Stack, head of Great Britain's Women's League of Health and Beauty; in Glasgow, Scotland.

Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of...

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