Milestones, Feb. 16, 1959

Divorce Revealed. Hank Greenberg, 48, longtime slugging first baseman for the Detroit Tigers, member of the Hall of Fame; by Caral Greenberg, 43, daughter of Merchant Prince Bernard Gimbel (Gimbels. Saks); after 13 years of marriage, three children; in Cullman, Ala., Jan. 15.

Died. Meyer Berger, 60, topflight U.S. reporter, rewriteman, columnist ("About New York") for the New York Times, his paper's choice to write major stories from the conviction of Al Capone to the sinking of the Andrea Doria, winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1950); after a stroke; in Manhattan.

Died. Major General William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 76, Wall Street lawyer,...

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