Milestones, Nov. 2, 1959

Married. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 56, widower, Britain's Home Secretary and chairman of the Tory Party; and wealthy (textiles) Mollie Courtauld, 52, widow and a distant cousin by marriage of Butler's wealthy (same textiles) first wife, Sydney Courtauld Butler; both for the second time; in Ashwell, England. At the wedding were Rab Butler's four children, Mollie's six. Her eldest son Christopher, 25, gave the bride away.

Died. Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, 79, Vice Chief of Naval Operations in World War II; in San Diego. Good Sailor Home, a onetime naval attache in Tokyo,...

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