Milestones: Sep. 14, 1981

MARRIED. Susan Atkins, 33, former Charles Manson family member who is serving a life sentence for her role in the 1969 slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others; and Donald Lee Leisure, 52, self-proclaimed Texas millionaire whom she met while hitchhiking in California in 1965; she for the first time (Laisure claims 35 previous marriages); in the chapel of the California Institute for Women in Frontera, Calif.

DIED. Vera-Ellen Rohe, 60, Cincinnati-born actress who, under the stage name Vera-Ellen, brought her well-scrubbed good looks and lissome dancing to a string of 1940s...

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