Milestones, Mar. 31, 1941

Married. Kathrine Sarles Durstine, 20, youngest daughter of dynamic, Dakota-born Roy Durstine, famed Manhattan ad man; and James R. Griswold, 28, son of Dillard H. Griswold, banker; in Nashville.

Married. Phillips Lord, 38, versatile radio idea-man and producer (Seth Parker, We the People, Gang Busters, Sky Blazers); and Donnie Boone, 27, blonde onetime orchestra leader, great-great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone; he for the second time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Maria Zimbalist Goelet, 25, daughter of Violinist-Composer and new Curtis Institute Director Efrem Zimbalist and of oldtime Opera Singer Alma Gluck; and Ogden Goelet, 33, Newport and Manhattan socialite, amateur pianist; after three years’ marriage; in Reno.

Divorced. Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Louise Hovick) 27, No. 1 U. S. stripper; from Robert Mizzy, 35, Manhattan dental-supply manufacturer; after four years’ marriage; in Chicago. Grounds: he knocked her down twice.

Died. Marguerite Nichols Roach, 45. wife of Movie Producer Hal Roach; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Last October Mrs. Roach sought a separation order after 25 years’ marriage, said: “If Hal wants his freedom I think he should have it.”

Died. Professor Ludwig Harald Schütz 68, formidably learned German scholar, author of works on physics, the teachings of Confucius, the origin of language, the soul of Japan; in Frankfurt-am-Main. Master of 200 languages and dialects Dr. Schütz once put a U. S. Indian circus team in their place by informing them in their own tongue that they were not Sioux as they advertised, but Pawnees.

Died. Thomas Heney Malone Jr., 69, Vanderbilt University law professor, leading Tennessee lawyer, an amicus curiae on Clarence Darrow’s side in the 1925 Scopes evolution trial; in Nashville.

Died. Bailey Millard, 81, oldtime editor of Cosmopolitan and Munsey’s magazine who as literary editor of the San Francisco Examiner first published Edwin Markham’s Man With the Hoe (1899), helped introduce the writings of Poet Joaquin Miller; in Los Angeles.

Died. Seth Flint, 93, who sounded the bugle call at Appomattox ending the Civil War; in Worcester, N. Y.

Left. By Neville Chamberlain, late Prime Minister of Great Britain: an estate of £84,000 ($336,000), of which £3,000 ($12,000) went to his niece, Valerie Cole, the remainder to his widow, son Frank, and daughter, Mrs. Stephen Lloyd.