Milestones, Oct. 27, 1952

Divorced. By Arlene Dahl, 27, titian-haired cinemactress (The Outriders, Scene of the Crime): Lex Barker, 33, Hollywood's tenth "Tarzan," after charging that he called her "a hick from Minnesota" because she refused a predinner cocktail; after 18 months of marriage, no children; in Hollywood.

Died. David Archibald Smart, 60, Omaha-born newspaper advertising salesman, who had his first publishing success as cofounder (with William Hobart Weintraub) in 1931 of a clothing-trade journal, Apparel Arts, launched Esquire in 1933, Coronet in 1936; of acute nephrosis; in Chicago.

Died. Francis Patrick Matthews, 65, onetime Ambassador to...

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