Milestones, May 28, 1973

Divorced. Kyle Rote, 45, former star running back and team captain of the New York football Giants, now calling the plays as a New York sports broadcaster; and Sharon Kay Ritchie, 36, infrequent stage actress and Miss America of 1956; after seven years of marriage (one of separation), no children; in Manhattan.

Died. General Alan Shapley, U.S.M.C., 70, who survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor to become the ranking Marine Corps officer in the Pacific; of a lung tumor; in Bethesda, Md. Shapley was commander of the Arizona's 87-Marine detachment in December 1941 and one of the ship's...

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