Milestones, Dec. 27, 1948

Married. Henry Pears Fisher, 30, lawyer, eldest son of Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury; and Felicity Sutton, 26, painter; in London (see RELIGION).

Married. Victor McLaglen, 62, hulking cinemactor (The Informer, Gunga Din); and Margaret Pumphrey, 48, Seattle socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Reno.

Married. David Aiken Reed, 68, onetime Old Guard Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, onetime chairman of the Military Affairs Committee and delegate to the 1930 London Naval Conference; and Edna M. French, 64, his late wife’s cousin; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Canaan, Conn.

Divorced. Robert Walker, 30, cinemactor (See Here, Private Hargrove; One Touch of Venus); by Barbara Ford, 25, daughter of Hollywood Director John Ford; after six weeks of marriage; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Raymond (“Ray”) Moley, 62, onetime New Deal Brain-Truster and short-time Assistant Secretary of State (1933), now a contributing editor and columnist for Newsweek; by Eva Dall Moley, 59; after 32 years of marriage, two children; in Cleveland.

Died. Dorothea Thompson Brande, 55, bestselling authoress (her self-help guide, Wake Up and Live, published in 1936, sold more than 400,000 copies); of a heart ailment; in Boston.

Died. Elizabeth Duncan, 77, eccentric, bang-haired dance instructor and elder sister of famed Dancer Isadora Duncan; of a heart ailment; in Tübingen, Germany. Elizabeth said that she picked up her “dance of life” theory (body movements keyed to the laws of nature) from the California redwoods and the sea lions at San Francisco.

Died. Sir C. (for Charles) Aubrey Smith, 85, hawk-nosed, patrician stage & screen character actor (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Four Feathers, Lloyds of London); in Beverly Hills, Calif. A onetime champion cricketer, Smith never gave up his British citizenship in more than 20 years in the U.S., was knighted in 1944.

Died. Mal S. Daugherty, 86, smalltown banker and political poohbah, one of the last surviving figures in the Teapot Dome scandal; after a stroke; in Washington Court House, Ohio. Brother of Harding’s Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Mai refused to open his books to the Senate in 1924 (he was suspected of having part of the payoff funds on deposit), became a pariah in his own town after his conviction for misusing bank funds.