Milestones, Apr. 3, 1944

Engaged. WAAF Flight Officer Jacqueline Leigh-Mallory, 23, only daughter of the invasion's air commander, British Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory; and U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer William Ellwood Doherty Jr., 26; in London. In peacetime he was a chemist at his family's Pleasant Valley Wine Co., a top-ranking American champagne producer, in Hammondsport, N.Y.

Died. Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, 38, second son of the late (ninth) Duke of Devonshire, husband of famed, U.S.-born onetime dancer Adele Astaire; after long illness; in his hereditary Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland. The tall, high-domed, horse-fancying Eton & Cambridge-man met the musicomedy star...

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