Milestones: Jan. 3, 1969

Married. Julie Nixon, 20, Presidentelect Richard M. Nixon’s younger daughter; and Dwight David Eisenhower II, 20, only grandson of former President Dwight Eisenhower; in a 15-minute ceremony performed at Manhattan’s Marble Collegiate Church by the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Julie wanted the wedding to be quiet, private and as small as possible. Only 500 family and friends were at the church, while Ike and Mamie watched over closed-circuit TV from his suite at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The only departure from the script came when Julie kissed her dad before she kissed David. Then it was off south for Christmas with her parents at Key Biscayne and a short secret honeymoon (most likely in the Bahamas) before the youngsters head back to Smith and Amherst to take up their studies.

Married. Strom Thurmond, 66, U.S. Senator and former Governor of South Carolina, who rallied Southern support for Richard Nixon in last year’s presidential election; and Nancy Moore, 22, a blue-eyed brunette beauty (Miss South Carolina of 1965), who met the Senator two summers ago while working in his Washington office; he for the second time; in a Presbyterian ceremony; in Aiken, S.C.

Married. Anna Anderson, 67, who has spent a lifetime seeking to prove that she is in reality the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia’s murdered Czar Nicholas II; and John E. Manahan, 49, former university lecturer who has backed her case for a decade; she for the second time; in Charlottesville, Va.

Died. Walter Winchell Jr., 33, only son of the aged, faded columnist, an unsuccessful freelance writer who supported his wife and two children on $191 monthly welfare payments and what he made as a restaurant dishwasher; on Christmas Day, by his own hand (.380 Magnum revolver); in Tustin, Calif.

Died. Raymond Gram Swing, 81, one of radio’s best-known newscasters, whose broadcasts four nights a week during World War II reached an audience of millions around the world; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Tall and gaunt, with a calm, reasoned tone to his speech, Swing was among the first of the true commentators, not merely reporting the news but attempting to find a meaning in each day’s events. His competition in the 1940s was formidable—H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, Gabriel Heatter—yet Swing commanded at least as large a following and salary (more than $150,000 in 1942), first on the Mutual Broadcasting Network and subsequently on the now defunct Blue Network.