Milestones, Mar. 7, 1955

Married. Lili St. Cyr (real name: Marie van Schaack), 36, blonde stripteaser; and Ted Jordan, 28, Hollywood and Broadway bit actor (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial); she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Colonel Calvin H. Goddard, 63, Army medical administrator, military historian and criminologist, famed for his work in ballistics and as the founder (in 1929) of the nation's first school of scientific crime detection at Northwestern University; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Colonel Goddard's ballistics techniques were widely disputed in 1927 when he presented evidence at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial that a...

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