Milestones, Nov. 8, 1948

Married. Edward Beale (“Ned”) McLean, 30, balding son of the late Washington Hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean; and Manuela Hudson (“Molly”) Vanderbilt, 34, brunette first wife of Millionaire Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; he for the third time, she for the second.

Married. Emir Abdul Illah, 35, dapper, Anglophile regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq; and Fayza el Traboulsi, 22, daughter of a well-heeled Egyptian army officer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bagdad.

Divorced. By John Francis Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, 47, Britain’s eleventh ranking duke: Irma Amelia Howard, 39, ex-ballet dancer; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in London. In 1947 the Duchess got a U.S. divorce, which Britain did not recognize, next day married her third husband, Manhattan Oil Consultant Frank Atherton Howard.

Died. Dr. Horace G. Smithy, 34, the surgeon who performed a daring heart operation (TIME, Feb. 16) to remove rheumatic fever scar tissue; of the same heart condition and other ailments, before he could finish training other surgeons in the technique that might have saved his own life; in Charleston, S.C.

Died. Dr. William Teulon Swan (“Sonners”) Stallybrass, 64, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University,* longtime Principal of Oxford’s Brasenose College; in an accident when he stepped out of a moving train (he was almost blind); near Iver Station, Buckinghamshire, England.

Died. Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, 71, California-born co-founder and longtime president of famed Hebrew University (Jerusalem), a leading Zionist and No. 1 champion of the binational state plan for Jews and Arabs in Palestine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, 74, Columbia University professor emeritus, dean of U.S. economists, co-founder and longtime research director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (1920-45); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. An authority on business cycles, Dr. Mitchell headed the Hoover Research Committee on Social Trends, later served F.D.R. as a member of the National Planning and National Resources Boards.

Died. Walter Stone Scott, 77, internationally known stamp expert and auctioneer, son of J. Walter Scott (publisher of the famed Scott stamp catalogue); of a heart ailment; in Sarasota, Fla.

*Roughly equivalent to president, except that the office generally rotates every three years. The chancellorship, now held by the Earl of Halifax, is largely honorary.