Milestones, Jul. 19, 1943 | TIME

Born. To Constance Keane (Veronica Lake) Detlie, 23, honey-haired cinemactress, and Major John Stewart Detlie, 34, peacetime cinemart director: their second child, a 3-lb. premature son; in Hollywood. Mother & son were doing nicely.

Married. H. H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao (“Junior”) Holkar Bahadur of Indore, 34, glossy, multimillionaire ruler of 1,513,966 souls; and Euphemia Watt Crane, 29; he for the third time, she for the second; a few hours after his divorce from Marguerite Lawlor Branyen, onetime Minneapolis nurse; in Reno.

Married. Efrem Zimbalist, 54, Russian-born violinist; and Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 66, widow of famed Editor Edward William Bok, daughter and heiress of the late Philadelphia Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ; in Rockport, Me. Director since 1941 of the Curtis Institute of Music, which she established, Zimbalist was the second husband of the late Soprano Alma Gluck.

Divorced. Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, onetime showgirl; by Coast Guard Lieut. Commander William Harrison (“Jack”) Dempsey, 48, onetime heavy weight champion; in White Plains, N.Y.

Died. Maria Cecilia (“Cissie”) Loftus, 66, famed theatrical impersonator; in Manhattan. A London favorite at 16, she was a star there and on Broadway for some 40 years. First of her two husbands was playwright Justin Huntley McCarthy, in whose If I Were King she played opposite E. H. Sothern. She succeeded Ellen Terry as Sir Henry Irving’s leading woman.

Died. Clifford Whittingham Beers, 67, onetime maniac, founder and longtime secretary of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (1909-’38); of broncho-pneumonia following cerebral thrombosis; in Providence. Fearing a fancied approach of epilepsy, in 1900 he leaped out of a fourth floor window, lived to see the inside of both private and public insane asylums. Released in 1903, he later wrote A Mind That Found Itself. A best-selling personal history, it drew the nation’s attention to the primitive brutality of its madhouses, led to reforms that helped many unbalanced minds.

Died. Dr. Frank Schlesinger, 72, famed astronomer, pioneer in the measurement of heavenly distances by photography; in Lyme, Conn. Some 40 years ago, he developed precise measurement methods (on photographic plates made with long-focus telescopes) which became standard practice. He was director of Yale’s observatory for 21 years, there built the 26-in.-lens telescope which was later set up in Johannesburg.

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