Milestones, Apr. 13, 1953

Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 27 coloratura soprano of Atlanta, Ga., who last month became the first Negro ever to win a principal role at La Scala opera house (TIME, March 16); and Luis Rodriguez Garcia de la Piedra, 30, Spanish journalist; in Genoa, Italy.

Died. Anthony R. ("Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas...

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