Milestones

Married. Dolores Ethel Mae Barrymore, 19, daughter of the late John Barrymore and oldtime Cinemactress Dolores Costello; and Thomas A. Fairbanks, 24, writer-hopeful; he for the second time, she for the first; in San Bernardino, Calif.

Married. Irene Luther Rich, 58, cinemactress; and George Henry Clifford, 68, public utilities (Stone & Webster Inc.) executive; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Died. Lew ("Monkeys is der cwaziest people") Lehr, 54, oldtime vaudevillian, newsreel editor and commentator whose "glitzery" dialect in Fox Movietone shorts gave belly laughs to a nation of moviegoers through most of the '30s and '40s; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Sid Grauman, 70, Hollywood showman whose series of garishly magnificent movie houses (Million Dollar Theater, Grauman's Egyptian, Grauman's Chinese) dazzled the film colony for three decades; in Hollywood. Grauman introduced such box office lures as trousered usherettes, the hand-and footprints of Hollywood greats preserved in concrete.

Died. Alfred Habdank Korzybski, 70, truculent founder of the Institute of General Semantics, whose "non-Aristotelian" philosophy, expounded in his abstruse Science and Sanity (1933), inspired an enthusiastic cult; in Sharon, Conn. A onetime Polish count and Imperial Russian army intelligence officer, severely wounded in World War I, Korzybski preached that most of the world's woes come about because language--and therefore all human thinking--does not correspond to physical reality.

Died. Albert Lebrun, 79, onetime peasant plowboy and last President (1932-40) of the Third French Republic, ousted by Marshal Petain after the Nazi invasion of France; in Paris.

Died. Edgar Lee Masters, 81, whose grim, folksy Spoon River Anthology (1915) was printed in 55 editions and at least five languages to become one of the biggest commercial successes in modern poetry; in Melrose Park, Pa. He wrote 51 other books of poetry and prose which never matched the acclaim that had changed him overnight from a Chicago lawyer into a national literary figure. Uncertain of his own first work, Lawyer Masters published Spoon River under a pseudonym, later bitterly resented its continued success while his later, longer and, to him, better writings (The Doomsday Book) aroused only minor interest. Accusing the U.S. of ingratitude to poets, Masters was found broke, ill and half-starved in Manhattan in 1944, two years later was given a $5,000 fellowship by the Academy of American Poets.

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