Monday, Apr. 12, 1954

Marriage Revealed. Jane Pickens, fortyish, singing star of stage (Regina), radio and television (Jane Pickens Show); and William C. Langley, 71, millionaire Manhattan investment banker; each for the second time; in Westbury, L.I., March 26.

Divorced. By George A. Hormel II, 25, heir to the Hormel meat-packing fortune (Spam) founded by his grandfather: Leslie Caron, 23, French-born Hollywood dancer (Lili); after 30 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. By Zsa Zsa Gabor, thirtyish, Hungarian-born cinemactress (Moulin Rouge): her third husband, Hollywood Cinemactor George Sanders, 48, (Call Me Madam); after five years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wept Zsa Zsa: "Sanders is a born bachelor. I tried everything . . . Marriage makes him unhappy."

Died. Crown Princess Martha of Norway, 53, wife of Crown Prince Olaf, daughter of Sweden's late Prince Carl and frequent White House guest while a refugee from Nazi-occupied Norway in World War II; of a liver ailment; in Oslo.

Died. General Hoyt S. (for Sanford) Vandenberg, 55, Air Force Chief of Staff from 1948 until his retirement last June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Jacquin Leonard (Jack) Lait, 71, oldtime Chicago newspaperman, since 1936 editor of Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror (circ. 913,691 daily, 1,664,703 Sunday); after long illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes. Not only do I not rewrite, I don't read 'em."

Died. Frederick Lonsdale, 73, prolific British playwright (about 20 plays), best known in the U.S. for his 1925 Broadway hit, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney; of a heart attack; in London.

Died. Thomas Evans Riddle, 107, one of the four surviving Confederate veterans (the sole living Union veteran: Albert Woolson, 107, of Duluth, Minn.); in Austin, Texas.

Presumed Dead. Lieut. James Alward Van Fleet Jr., U.S. Air Force, only son of retired Army General James A. Van Fleet; two years after he was listed as missing following the disappearance of his B-26 bomber behind Communist lines; near Sunchon, Korea.

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