Milestones, Aug. 2, 1954

Married. Lu.Ann Simms, 22, TV-Radio warbler (Arthur Godfrey and His Friends) ; and Loring Bruce Buzzell, 26, music publisher; both for the first time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By John Jacob Astor III, 42: Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, his second wife; after ten years of marriage (four years of separation), one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. J. (for Joseph) Cornelius Rathborne, 45, a director of New Orleans' Times-Picayune Publishing Co., banker, financier and onetime ranking polo player (six goals); of pancreatitis; in Boston. Rathborne made unsolicited headlines in 1939 when he and his wife...

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