Milestones, Jun. 25, 1956

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Married. Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, 31, onetime French flight nurse whose 58 days of selfless ministrations to beleaguered French troops in Indo-China (1954) earned her the title of "Angel of Dienbienphu"; and Captain Jean de Heaulme de Boutsocq, 33, St. Cyr-educated French parachutist and veteran of the Indo-China war; in Paris.

Married. Winthrop Rockefeller, 44, oil-heir-turned-Arkansas-cattle-baron; and Jeannette Edris Barrager Hartley McDonnell, 37, Seattle real-estate million-heiress; he for the second time (his first: Barbara — "Bobo" — Jievute Paulekiute Sears), she for the fourth (her first: Nate Barrager, 1929 football captain at the University of Southern California); at Hayden Lake, Idaho.

Married. Gordon Gray, 47, shy, sandy-haired Assistant Secretary of Defense, ex-president (1950-55) of the University of North Carolina, onetime (1949-50) Secretary of the Army and special assistant to Harry Truman on foreign aid (the "Gray Report"), first director of the U.S. Government's Psychological Strategy Board, head of the special security board of the AEC that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to the nation's top atom secrets, publisher; and Mrs. Nancy Maguire Beebe, 31; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C.

Divorced. By Arthur Miller, 40, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Death of a Salesman) and current romantic interest, according to the tabloids, of Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 30: Mary Grace Slattery Miller, 40; after 16 years of marriage, two children; in Reno.

Divorced. By Jane Froman, 45, brunette singer of stage (Ziegfeld Follies), nightclubs, radio and TV, wartime U.S.A. favorite whose gallant comeback after a 1943 plane crash in Portugal (and 25 leg operations) was recorded in a Hollywood film biography (With a Song in My Heart): John Curtis Burn, 41, Pan American pilot and officer of the Yankee Clipper that went down with Singer Froman (whom he held above icy Tagus River waters for nearly an hour before being rescued); after eight years of marriage, more than one of separation, no children; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Frank Trumbauer, 56, goateed hot saxophonist of the Jazz Age, musicmaking crony of the late great Cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, and wartime test pilot; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo.

Died. Ralph Morgan (real name: Ralph Wuppermann), 72, veteran (since 1908) character actor of stage (Strange Interlude) and screen (Magnificent Obsession), elder brother of the late Comedian Frank Morgan, son of George Wuppermann, founder and first president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (bitters) ; after long illness, in Manhattan.

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