Milestones, Sep. 18, 1950

Marriage Revealed. Judy Canova, 33 hillbilly entertainer; and Philip Rivero 37, Cuban importer; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Mexico, in June.

Died. William Olaf Stapledon, 64 Egypt-born British philosopher (A Modern Theory of Ethics) and fiction writer (such early-Wellsian fantasies as Last and First Men, Odd John, Sinus); of a coronary occlusion; in Cheshire, England. A longtime one-worlder, Stapledon achieved a measure of distinction in March 1949 as the only British delegate at the Communist-backed Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace* in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria.

Died. Harvey Dow Gibson, 68, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., sixth...

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