Milestones, Jun. 7, 1954

Married. Robert Merrill (real name: Robert Miller), 34, Brooklyn-born Metropolitan Opera baritone; and Marion Machno, 27, Manhattan piano teacher; he for the second time (a previous go-day marriage to Met Soprano Roberta Peters ended in divorce in 1952), she for the first; in Manhattan.

Married. Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 37, jut-jawed cinema tough guy (Champion, Detective Story); and Anne Buydens, 31, onetime press-agent in Paris; each for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Robert Taylor (real name: Spangler Arlington Brugh), 42, cinemactor (Ivanhoe, Knights of the Round Table); and Ursula Thiess, 30, German-born cine-masiren (Monsoon); each for the second...

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