Milestones, Sep. 28, 1953

Married. Colette Marchand, 28, French ballerina, star of stage (Two on the Aisle) and screen (Moulin Rouge); and Jacques Bazire, 25, musical director of the Ballets de Paris; in London.

Married. Rosemary Turner McMahon, 36, widow of the late Brien McMahon, Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1945-52) and head of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; and Baron Robert Silvercruys, 59, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.; he for the first time, she for the second; in a quiet church ceremony; in Washington, D.C.

Divorced. William Vincent Astor, 61, Manhattan real-estate king who inherited $65 million from his father, John Jacob Astor; by his...

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