Milestones, may 4, 1959

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Married. Gene Krupa, aging (50) jazz drummer, famed for his wide, colorful range of techniques and his difficulties with the law over marijuana matters; and Patricia Bowler, 25, a secretary from Springfield, Mass.; he for the second time (the first Mrs. Krupa died in 1955), she for the first; in Yonkers, N.Y.

Divorced. Sammy Davis Jr., 33, supercharged Negro entertainer, cinemactor (Anna Lucasta) and Broadway star (Mr. Wonderful); by Loray White Davis, 24. nightclub singer; after 15 months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas.

Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in January.

Divorced. Marlon Brando, 35, whose cinemumbling has earned him so much money that he agreed to make various payments—alimony, child support, medical expenses—totaling $685,000 in the next ten years; by Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 24, once Joanie O'Callaghan of Darjeeling, India; after 18 months of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. Anthony Nutting, 39, onetime (1954-56) British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who resigned protesting the British-French action at Suez; by Gillian Nutting, 40, who pleaded desertion; after 18 years of marriage, three children; by decree nisi, in London.

Died. Don Black, 41, Cleveland pitcher who overcame a career-crippling drinking problem by joining Alcoholics Anonymous, within months (1947 season) threw a no-hitter against the Athletics, next year twisted his neck while batting and suffered a hemorrhage that ended his playing days; of lung cancer; in Akron.

Died. Egon Reinert, 50, Prime Minister of the Saar, a leader in Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union Party, who became the Saarland's Prime Minister in June 1957, five months after the French relinquished the control they had exercised over the region since the end of World War II; of auto-crash injuries; in Saarbrücken, West Germany.

Died. Howard Wilcox Haggard, 67, longtime (1938-56) director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale. Fla.

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