Milestones, Jun. 11, 1956

Married. Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg), 56, veteran Broadway showman; and Joyce Mathews, 36, blonde onetime cinema starlet (Night Work), and Rose's longtime (five years) fiancee; he for the third time (his first: Comedienne Fanny Brice; second: Aqua-star Eleanor Holm), she for the fourth (her first: Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez; her second and third: TV Comic Milton Berle); in Manhattan.

Died. Sir Francis Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire, 65, Australian industrialist-philanthropist and famed swim star who represented his country in three Olympic Games (1908, 1920, 1924), won more than 200 championship titles, set eight world...

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