Milestones, Dec. 13, 1954

Married. Fred Waring, 54, veteran sweet-and-low bandleader; and Virginia Morley, 39, pianist for Waring's Pennsylvanians; he for the third time, she for the second; in Indianapolis; the day after Waring was divorced by wife No. 2, Evalyn Nair Waring, in Las Vegas, Nev.

Marriage Revealed. Barbara Billingsley, 18, daughter of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley; and John Rogers Christoffers, 28, commercial photographer; in Folkston, Ga., on Nov. 29, after her father had reported her as a missing person.

Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes...

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