Milestones, Sep. 27, 1943

Engaged. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, the invasion’s softspoken, bird-faced bombing strategist; and Mrs. Marie Black, organizer of R.A.F.-men’s Malcolm Clubs in Algiers and Tunisia; in Algiers. His first wife died in an air crash near Cairo last January.

Married. Bettina de Rothschild, 18, brunette elder daughter of the late Alphonse de Rothschild of Vienna; and Army Lieut. Matthew James Looram, 22, Harvard ’43; in Manhattan. Her father was one of Dynast Solomon Rothschild’s five grandsons.

Married. Louise Booth Morley, 23, daughter of Author Christopher Morley, London OW Idea girl; and Captain James A. Cochrane, 24, bemedaled (D.S.O., M.C.) Queens Own Cameron Highlander; in London.

Sued for Divorce. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Billing, 48, famed alarmist, author of The Red Network; by Albert Wallwick pilling, 51, engineer; for the second time; in Reno. Their shrill 1942 countersuits ended in reconciliation.

Sued for Divorce. Joseph Albert Fields, 48, sad-faced co-author of Broadway comedy-clicks (My Sister Eileen, Junior Miss), elder son of the late great Vaudevillian Lew (Weber &) Fields; by Germaine Sarlabous Fields, 40; after 14 years of marriage; in Manhattan.

Died. Valentine Edward Charles (“Val”) Browne, 52, the Earl of Kenmare, Viscount Castlerosse, Britain’s balloon-shaped Walter Winchell; of heart disease; in Killarney, Eire. Heir to vast Irish estates, he was having a hard time making his luxurious ends meet when Lord Beaverbrook took him up after War I, made him his star gossip in the Sunday Express. A 300-lb., bullet-headed dandy, Val spread out from bar-&-boudoir intelligence to light commentary on international affairs.

Died. John Flammang Schrank, 67, Bavarian-born ex-barkeep who shot and wounded Theodore” Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912; of bronchial pneumonia; in the Waupun, Wis. hospital where he spent 29 of his 31 mailless, visitorless years in state custody, after being judged a paranoiac. Schrank regarded Teddy’s 1912 Bull Moosing as a bid for a third term, decided to shoot him. Schrank’s single shot was parried by manuscripts and a spectacle case in T.R.’s pockets. Despite his wound, Teddy made a speech that night, a fortnight later again felt perfectly bully.

Died. Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, 67, wife of “G.B.S.”; in London (see p. 36).