Milestones, May 24, 1943

Married. Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, 21, eldest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, great-granddaughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt, first cousin (twice-removed) of the Prime Minister; and U.S. Naval Lieut. Edwin Russell, peacetime New Jersey newspaper publisher (and no kin to anybody famous); in London.

Married. Playwright Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy), 36; and Actress Betty Grayson, 24; two years after his divorce from Cinemactress Luise Rainer; in Manhattan.

Sued for Divorce. By Elizabeth Hicks Newell, 22, pint-sized, long-driving 1941 women's national amateur golf champion, now a professional: Oklahoma aircraft executive Frank Newell, 27; in Long Beach, Calif.

Killed in...

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