Milestones, Jun. 1, 1942

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Born. To Cinemactress Alice Faye and Orchestra Leader Phil Harris: a daughter, Phyllis; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 lb., 2½ oz.

Engaged. Prince Duarte Nuño, pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Marie Thérèse, sister-in-law of the Comte de Paris, pretender to the throne of France.

Married. Nancy Oakes, 17, daughter of Sir Harry Oakes, Canadian multimillionaire (gold mines); and sugar-wealthy Count Alfred de Marigny, 31; he for the second time. Place of the wedding was kept secret. His first wife was Ruth Fahnestock, Manhattan banker's daughter.

Married. Mary Roberts Rinehart II 21, granddaughter of the novelist; and Camille Henry Huvelle, 25, Manhattan medical student; in Manhattan.

Married. Leslie Ruth Howard, daughter of Cinemactor Leslie Howard; and Captain Dale Harris, Canadian artilleryman ; near Dorking, England.

Married. Cinemactress Priscilla Lane, 24; and Lieut. Joseph A. Howard. 27 of the Army Air Forces; she for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Beatrice Clough Rathbone. U.S. -born member of the House of Commons; and Captain Paul Herve Giraud Wright of the King's Royal Rifle Corps; she for the second time; in London.

Divorced. By Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 23 : Oilman Edward C. Judson, 45 ; in Los Angeles.

Died. Emanuel Feuermann, 39, world-famed cellist; after an operation; in Manhattan. A child prodigy, he was a professor at the Cologne Conservatory at 16, was ousted by the Nazis as a teacher in Berlin in 1933, went on two world concert tours that won him acclaim as one of the great virtuosos, successor to No. 1 Cellist Pablo Casals.

Died. George Antonius, 50, Cambridge-educated Christian Arab politician, power in the Arab Nationalist movement, author (The Arab Awakening); in Jerusalem.

Died. Hale Rice Hamilton, 62, veteran actor, the original Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. He was the brother of John D. M. Hamilton, ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Died. The Most Rev. Samuel Pritchard Matheson, 89, longtime Primate of the Church of England in Canada (1909-31), retired Archbishop of Rupert's Land; in Winnipeg.