Milestones, Jul. 12, 1954

Married. June Haver. 28. blonde cinemactress (The Girl Next Door), who entered a Roman Catholic convent as a postulant nun in February 1953, quitsix months later; and Fred MacMurray, 45, cinemactor (The Caine Mutiny); both for the second time; in Ojai, Calif.

Marriage Revealed. Linda Darnell, 30, brunette cinemactress (Forever Amber); and Philip Liebmann, 39. wealthy president of Liebmann Breweries. Inc. (Rheingold); both for the second time; in Bernalillo, N. Mex., on Feb. 25.

Divorced. By Betty Hutton, 33, brass-lunged Hollywood musicomedienne (The Greatest Show on Earth): Dance Director Charles O’Curran, 39. her second husband; after two years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica. Calif.

Divorced. Ely Culbertson. 62. Rumanian-born maharaja of contract bridge; by Dorothy Baehne Culbertson. 28, his second wife after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newfane, Vt.

Died. Lynn Riggs. 54. Broadway folk playwright (Green Grow the Lilacs, 1931, the source of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s fabulously successful Oklahoma!) after a brief illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Tang En-po. 55. Chinese Nationalist general; after surgery; in Tokyo. A onetime boy wonder in China’s eight-year war against Japan. General Tang met only defeat at the hands of the Chinese Communists, was sacked after the fall of Shanghai in 1949.

Died. Reginald Marsh. 56. Paris-born American painter and illustrator; of a heart ailment: in Bennington. Vt. Marsh vigorously reproduced the people and

Buildings he observed from the windows of his Union Square studio, won a place in the nation’s major museums, including the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan. He once called nonobjective modern art “phony primitivism.” added: “Critics may not know what’s wrong with Picasso, but any layman can tell you. The question is, what does it mean?” Thousands of museumgoers have come to see the meaning of Manhattan’s Bowery bums and honky-tonks partly through the eyes of Painter Marsh.

Died. Hugh Alfred Butler. 76, longtime (since 1941) Old Guard Republican Senator from Nebraska; of a stroke; in Washington. A tireless spokesman for Midwestern farm-bloc isolationism, wealthy (grain-trading) Hugh Butler, in 14 years in the Senate, came out against lend-lease, wartime extension of the draft act, reciprocal trade, Social Security, all Government subsidies, the Marshall Plan, Point Four and Korean intervention, last year reversed his field and became an ardent champion of Hawaiian statehood.