Milestones, Mar. 19, 1945

Married. Technical Sergeant Charles E. (“Commando”) Kelly, 24, rugged, rusty-haired “one man army,” Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis with assorted weapons in a single engagement); and plump brunette May Frances Boish, 19, whom he met last year when their home town Pittsburgh celebrated his homecoming; in Phenix City, Ala.

Married. Private Red Skelton, 31, limber-legged, extroverted radio and cinema comic; and Georgia Maureen Davis, 23, ex-photographer’s model; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills. Second item on the bridegroom’s furlough schedule: having his tonsils out.

Married. Catherine Vance Nimitz, 31, music-librarian, eldest of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’ three daughters; and Commander James Thomas Lay, 36, of the Third Amphibious Force; in Washington, D.C. The wedding was put forward by the unexpected arrival from the Pacific of the bride’s father. Result: the bride wore navy blue, too.

Married. James (“Jimmy”) Dunn, 43, now taking a second hitch at cinema stardom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Edna Rush, 37, radio singer (Philadelphia’s “Miss Television” of 1931); he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia. Bridal attendant: A Tree’s Author Betty Smith.

Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany.

Died. Hugh Byas, 70, canny Scottish journalist, Tokyo correspondent for both the London Times and the New York Times (1927-41), authoritative writer on contemporary Japan (Government By Assassination), lately Yale lecturer; after long illness; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain’s Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control (“you should not have self-control when you are making love”), prohibition (“alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook”), divorce (“when a marriage’s main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning”). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: “The King’s life is moving peacefully toward its close.”