Milestones, Mar. 22, 1948

Married. Andre Malraux, 52, onetime Marxist novelist (Man's Hope, Man's Fate), now No. 1 political theorist and propagandist for Charles de Gaulle; and Madeleine Jeanne Lioux Malraux, thirtyish, pretty widow of his halfbrother, Roland, a Resistance hero who died in a Nazi concentration camp; each for the second time; in Riquewihr, Alsace.

Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly...

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