Milestones, Aug. 30, 1948

Married. Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 51, second husband of the thrice-married Duchess of Windsor; and Avril Joy Mullens Leveson Gower, 39, British socialite; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in London.

Married. Roy Del Ruth, 52, veteran cinema director-producer (DuBarry Was A Lady, The Babe Ruth Story); and Winnie Lightner, fortyish, boisterous cinecomic of the early talkies; each for the second time; in Riverside, Calif.

Marriage Revealed. Allan S. Lehman, 63, banker and nephew of New York’s onetime Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Ann Roche Marshall, 45, fire battalion chief’s daughter and Lehman’s longtime friend; each for the second time; in Manhattan, one day after his divorce (after 36 years) from Evelyn Schiffer Lehman, to whom he paid a reported $3,500,000 settlement.

Died. Harry Dexter White, 55, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury (1945-46), recently accused before the Thomas committee of supplying information to a Communist spy net; of a heart ailment; in Fitzwilliam, N.H. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Dr. George Elliott MacKinnon, 65, bluff, beloved country doctor, who won fame when hundreds of his former patients turned out to celebrate “Doc MacKinnon” day (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945); after long illness; in Prentice, Wis. In 30 years he delivered 3,000 babies, wore out 17 cars, a sleigh, a buggy, a snowmobile.

Died. Clarence Edward Groesbeck, 72, longtime chairman of the board of the vast Electric Bond & Share Co. public-utilities empire; in La Jolla, Calif. In the ‘305, with Commonwealth & Southern’s Wendell L. Willkie, he led the fight against TVA and the New Deal’s program of Government regulation of utilities.

Died. Mariette Rheiner (“Ettie”) Garner, 79, capable wife of the 32nd Vice President, his “righthand man” for half a century; of a neurological ailment; in Uvalde, Tex. Ettie married Judge John Nance Garner in 1895, served as his private secretary when he was elected to the House in 1902, as second lady of the land (1933-1940) shunned Washington’s social life.

Died. Charles Prendergast, 79, artist brother of the late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called “incised gesso”: etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf.