Milestones, Sep. 28, 1953

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Married. Colette Marchand, 28, French ballerina, star of stage (Two on the Aisle) and screen (Moulin Rouge); and Jacques Bazire, 25, musical director of the Ballets de Paris; in London.

Married. Rosemary Turner McMahon, 36, widow of the late Brien McMahon, Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1945-52) and head of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; and Baron Robert Silvercruys, 59, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.; he for the first time, she for the second; in a quiet church ceremony; in Washington, D.C.

Divorced. William Vincent Astor, 61, Manhattan real-estate king who inherited $65 million from his father, John Jacob Astor; by his second wife, Mary Cushing Astor, 47, eldest of the late brain surgeon Harvey Cushing's three beautiful, millions-marrying daughters (her sisters' husbands: CBS Board Chairman William Paley, Manhattan Financier John Hay Whitney) ; on grounds of mental cruelty, after nearly 13 years of marriage, no children; in Pocatello, Idaho.

Died. (Michael) Maximilian, 58, Manhattan furrier who built up a $3,500,000-a-year business designing high-styled, high-priced mink and sable coats for women of wealth and fashion (Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, Doris Duke, et al.); after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Lewis Corey (real name: Louis C. Fraina), 61, author-economist, who helped organize the U.S. Communist Party (1919) and became its first secretary; of meningitis; in Manhattan. Born in Italy, he came to the U.S. as a child, joined the Socialist Party, after the 1917 Bolshevist Revolution emerged as a spokesman of the party's Marxist extremists, hoped to become an American Lenin. Under federal indictment for sedition, Agitator Corey fled the country in 1920, in Moscow got a hero's welcome and a disillusioning first look at the new workers' paradise. Back in the U.S. and no longer a party member, he turned out a set of widely read, statistics-laden tracts (The House of Morgan, The Decline of American Capitalism, etc.), became a leading anti-Communist educator in the U.S. labor movement, a professor of political economy at Antioch College.

Died. Joseph Sigall, 61, Polish-born portrait painter of European monarchs (Britain's George VI, Germany's Wilhelm II), U.S. Presidents (Coolidge, Hoover, F.D.R.) and celebrities (General Douglas MacArthur, Film Siren Pola Negri); of a heart ailment; in La Jolla, Calif.

Died. Percival Wilde, 66, prolific playwright (The Aftermath, Mother of Men) and author of well-turned mysteries (Design for Murder); following a heart attack; in Manhattan.