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Milestones, Jul. 30, 1956

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Born. To Olivia de Havilland, 40, two-time Oscar-winning cinemactress (To Each His Own, The Heiress), and Pierre Galante, 46, writer for the French picture magazine Paris-Match: their first child (her second), a daughter; by Caesarean section; in Paris. Name: Giselle. Weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz.

Married. Hamilton Farrar Richardson, 22, Rhodes scholar and member of the U.S. Davis Cup team; and Ann Kathryn Kennington, 22; in New Orleans.

Married. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 26, only son of Rubber Baron Harvey Firestone Jr.; and Beverly Lou McFarlan, 23, small-town (Brooklyn, Ohio) schoolteacher; in Brecksville, Ohio.

Married. Archduchess Charlotte of Habsburg, 35, middle daughter of Empress Zita and the late Charles I (last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), sister of Austrian Pretender Archduke Otto of Habsburg, and longtime (1943-56) welfare worker (under the name of Charlotte de Bar) in Manhattan’s East Harlem; and Duke George of Mecklenburg, 56; she for the first time, he for the second; in Pocking, Germany.

Divorced. Sammy Kaye, 46, jug-eared “Swing and Sway” bandleader; by Ruth Knox Kay, 46; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Cleveland.

Died. Alice Muriel Astor Pleydell-Bouverie, 54, four-times-married daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor (who went down with the Titanic), sister of Vincent, half-sister of John Jacob Astor III, onetime wife of Russian Prince Serge Obolensky; of a stroke; in Manhattan.

Died. Maurice-Edmond Sailland, 83, bald, rotund (220 Ibs.) Gallic gourmet better known by his self-styled title Prince Curnonsky, founder (1928) of France’s famed Académie des Gastronomes and head of 27 gastronomical societies, prolific culinary writer (France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes); after accidentally falling from a window of his fourth-floor apartment; in Paris.

Died. Francis Albert (“Bee”) Behymer, 86, veteran (since 1888) reporter and feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch whose “cornfield journalism” has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, “Mr. Bee” went to the P-D ten years after its founding (1878) by the first Joseph Pulitzer, became a standard prop at back-country murder trials and hillbilly feuds, stamped his copy with his own brand of homespun humor. (“Methuselah lived 969 years and all they said about him was that he died. But what was he doing for 969 years? What a story, and all the reporters missed it!”)

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