Milestones, Aug. 17, 1942

Born. To Actress June Gale, 27, and Musical Know-It-All Oscar Levant (Information Please), 35; their second daughter, Lorna; weight, 6 lb. 10 oz.; in Manhattan.

Married. Mrs. Brenda Williams-Taylor Frazier Watriss, mother of ex-Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier Kelly; and Henry Pierrepont Perry, retired stock broker; each for the third time; in Manhattan.

Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early...

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