Monday, Jun. 25, 1945

Married. Judy Garland, 23, snub-nosed cinemingenue ; and Vincente Minnelli, 38, who directed her in Meet Me In St. Louis; she for the second time, he for the first; in Los Angeles; one week after she divorced Bandleader-Composer David (Holiday For Strings) Rose.

Married. Deanna Durbin, 23, round-faced cinema songstress; and Felix Jack son, 43, German-born producer of her current film (Can't Help Singing); she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Lieut. Colonel Francis S.

("Gabby") Gabreski, 26, affable, much-decorated ace (28 Nazi planes); and Kay Cochran, -L-i ; in Prairie du Chien, Wis.

Married. Jinx Falkenburg, 26, alluring camera target whose magazine-cover face & figure sped her up the model-to-movies path (Cover Girl); and A.A.F. Lieut.

Colonel John R. (Tex) McCrary, 34, ex-chief editorial writer of Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror and onetime son-in-law of Hearst's late Pundit Arthur Brisbane; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Married. Harrison E. Spangler, 66, loyal, longtime GOPolitician, onetime chairman of the Republican National Com mittee (1942-44); and Mrs. Myrtle B.

Buehner, 50; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Henry Bellamann, 63, dean of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, and best-selling novelist (Kings Row) ; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Lady Sybil Eden, 78, mother of Anthony; in Windlestone, England. Of her son's ups-& -downs as British Foreign Secretary, she once remarked: "I often feel like bubbling over with pride, and at times like bursting into tears." Died. Amelie Rives (Princess Trou-betzkoy), 81, who, as a golden-haired Southern beauty in her twenties, scandal ized readers in the '80s and '90s with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead; after long illness; in Charlottesville, Va.

She was introduced to the Prince by Oscar Wilde at a London garden party, who called them "the two most beautiful per sons at the party." Died. General John Milton Claypool, 98, unreconstructed Confederate, twice national commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. Once, reluctantly agreeing to attend a Union-Confederate reunion at Gettysburg, he magnanimously conceded: "Since the Lord has put up with the Yankees all this time, I guess I can . . .

for a few days."

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