Milestones, Aug. 27, 1956

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Marriage Revealed. Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 56, fissionable, fabulously successful Brooklyn-reared uranium promoter, exuberant art collector (TIME, July 25, 1955); and Mrs. Mildred Hawley Heide, 37; in Baltimore, May 7.

Married. Francis X. (for,Xavier) Bushman, 73, great lover of silent films (Ben Hur, Graustark), who made' $6,000,000 in his heyday (1911-18); and Mrs. Iva Millicent Richardson, 53; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Colonel David Carl Schilling, 37, World War II European Theater ace (24 German planes in air fights and 10½ by strafing), who in 1950 made the first nonstop Atlantic jet crossing; when his car skidded into a bridge near the U.S. Air Force Base at Mildenhall, England.

Died. Bertolt ("Bert") Brecht, 58, slight, bespectacled German playwright (librettist for Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera) who, according to ex-Communist Arthur Koestler, sold Marxism "with great brilliance and intellectual dishonesty" to "the snobs and parlor Communists" of Europe; of a heart attack; in East Berlin.

Died. John Francis Griffiths, 57, onetime (1941-46) cultural attache to the U.S. embassy at Buenos Aires, who in 1948 was accused by Dictator Juan D. Peron, of financing an assassination plot against Peron and his wife Eva, was later cleared by Peron in a general amnesty (1953); of leukemia; in Buenos Aires.

Died. Vice Admiral Lynde Dupuy McCormick, 61, onetime (1952-54) commander of the ten-nation NATO Atlantic fleet, president (since 1954) of the Naval War College at Newport, R.I.; of a heart attack; in Newport.

Died. Arthur Bliss Lane, 62, career diplomat (31 years), postwar (1945-47) U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who resigned, wrote / Saw Poland Betrayed after the present Communist regime gained power in the election of January 1947; of acute hepatitis; in Manhattan.

Died. Bela Lugosi, 73, movie menace (Dracula, The Ghost of Frankenstein) who played Ibsen and Shakespeare in his native Hungary, got his start in horror roles in the Broadway play Dracula in 1927 (his last request was to be buried in Dracula's cape), last year married his 39-year-old fifth wife, Hope Lininger, after a hospital term for drug addiction; of a heart attack in Hollywood.

Died. Baron Constantin von Neurath, 83, onetime (1932-38) German Foreign Minister, who became "Protector" of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, was replaced by Reinhard ("The Hangman") Heydrich (1941) after a wave of unrest; of a heart ailment; at Enzweihingen, Germany.