Milestones, Sep. 2, 1940

Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles.

Died. Francis George, Lord North, 38, descendant of England's eighth Lord North, Prime Minister during the American Revolution; and the Lady Cynthia Williams, his sister; when a land mine exploded as they strolled along the seashore in a prohibited area; somewhere in southeast England. (Lady North was injured.)

Died. Jean Pierre Clément Marie, Due de Guise, 65, pretender to the French throne; in Larache, Spanish Morocco. In recent weeks many a...

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