Milestones, Mar. 1, 1943

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Married. Ann Louise Wickard, 20, daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard; and Naval Ensign Jean Vincent Pickart, 23, of Gary, Ind.; in Washington.

Married. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 37, ex-wife of Multimillionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney; and Corporal Josiah Marvel Jr., 37, ex-politico; in Wilmington. A Democrat, he missed the Governorship of Delaware by 700 votes in 1940.

Sued for Divorce. By Novelist Katherine Ursula Tuowle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg Schermerhorn (ExWife, Next Time We Live), 40: Army Air Forces Captain Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 45, her fourth; in Miami. She faces trial this week on charges of aiding desertion, harboring a deserter, undermining the morale of a member of the armed forces (TIME, Jan. 11).

Divorced. By Writer Kay Boyle (Wedding Day, The First Lover, My Next Bride): Writer Laurence Vail, 52, her second; after twelve years; on her 40th birthday; in Reno.

Killed in Action. Master Sergeant Meyer Levin, 26, bombardier for the late Colin Kelly, first U.S. hero of World War II; in a Flying Fortress crash off Port Moresby. Onetime stock clerk in a New York City warehouse, handsome Mike Levin joined the Army on his 23rd birthday, flew with Kelly on his last mission, served at Corregidor before he went to Australia, was Brooklyn's No. 1 air hero.

Died. Elsie Houston, 40, concert soprano, top singer of Brazilian folk melodies, magic-ritual songs; from an overdose of sleeping tablets; in Manhattan. She was a descendant of Texas' famed General Sam Houston, daughter of an American dentist in Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian mother.

Died. Marine Corps Colonel Harold Douglas Shannon, 50, commander of the ground forces in the Battle of Midway; of pneumonia; in San Diego. A much-decorated World War I veteran, he won the D.S.M. for his Midway defense. Of the four-day battle he observed last fall: "The only Japs that landed on Midway were dead ones."

Died. Lynne Overman, 55, veteran character actor, cinema's jack-of-all roles; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica. A onetime jack-of-all-trades (jockey, candy butcher, song plugger, minstrel man), he was a Broadway favorite before he went to Hollywood in 1934, thereafter played more than 50 wry-humored cinema roles —nearly all of them out of the side ot his mouth.