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Milestones, Nov. 24, 1958

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Married. Dick Haymes, 40, sometime singing cinemactor (State Fair) and Frances Ann Makris, 21; he for the fifth time (No. 2: Joanne Dru; No. 4: Rita Hay worth), she for the second; in Arlington, Va.

Divorced. By John P. Marquand, 65, novelist whose current bestseller, Women and Thomas Harrow, concerns a writer who has three unsuccessful marriages: Adelaide Hooker Marquand, 55, his second wife (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III); after 21 years of marriage, three children; in Carson City, Nev.

Died. David Fredenthal, 44, Detroit-born artist known for sketches of news events, particularly battle scenes made for LIFE during World War II; of an overdose of barbiturates; in Rome.

Died. Tyrone Power, cinemactor, 44; of a heart attack suffered on the set of United Artists’ Solomon and Sheba, following a strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema’s top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile, The Eddy Duchin Story, The Sun Also Rises and Witness for the Prosecution. Noted for his independence of mind after his World War II duty as a Marine flyer, Power gave up fulltime moviemaking in 1952, returned to the stage (John Brown’s Body, The Dark Is

Light Enough, Back to Methuselah), reasoning that “you don’t always do everything for loot, do you?” His marriages were as varied as his screen credits. No. 1: French Actress Annabella (Suzanne Charpentier). No. 2: Mexican-born Cinemango Linda Christian, who charged Power $1,000,000 for his freedom in 1955. No. 3: Deborah Moatgomery Minardos, 26, of Mississippi, who expects their child in February.

Died. John Randolph Hearst, 49, assistant general manager of the Hearst newspapers, third of the five sons of the late William Randolph Hearst; in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Died. Rear Admiral Leonard B. Southerland, U.S.N., 53, commander of aircraft carriers in the Seventh Fleet; in the crash of a helicopter; on Okinawa.

Died. James Michael Curley, 83, onetime top Democrat in Massachusetts (Mayor of Boston, Governor, Congressman); following surgery for an internal obstruction; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Samuel Hopkins Adams, 87, novelist, turn-of-the-century muckraker, chronicler of the Harding era (Revelry, Incredible Era), master of reminiscence (Grandfather Stories), whose widely varied five-foot shelf also made a large haul in Hollywood (Flaming Youth, It Happened One Night, The Gorgeous Hussy, The Harvey Girls); in Beaufort, S.C. “I’m damned if I want my last novel to appear posthumously,” he said, but Tenderloin will not appear until January.

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