Milestones, Dec. 31, 1945

Divorced. By Ernest Hemingway, 47, masculine, monosyllabic author: his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, 37, author of social novels and Hemingwayesque short stories; after five years of marriage, no children; in Havana. Grounds: desertion.

Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 46, amiable, enormous Negro cinemactress (Gone with the Wind): her third husband, James Lloyd Crawford, 49, real estate salesman; after four and a half years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood. She said he was jealous of her career, once threatened to kill her.

Divorced. James Ramsey Ullman, 38, mountain-climbing, best-selling novelist (The White Tower), onetime...

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