Milestones, Mar. 15, 1954

Divorced. Guy Mitchell, 27, jukebox favorite (My Heart Cries for You) turned cinemactor (Red Garters); by Jackie Loughery, 23, Miss United States in the Miss Universe of 1952 competition; after 17 months of marriage; in Hollywood.

Died. Prince Ernest von Hohenberg, 49, younger son of Austria's Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo (1914) touched off World War I; of a heart ailment; in Graz, Austria. No friend of Hitler, Prince Ernest once smashed an illuminated swastika sign with his umbrella in Vienna, spent the next five years (1938-43) in a German concentration camp.

Died. Noel Gay (real name: Reginald Moxon Armitage),...

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