Milestones, Sep. 27, 1976

Married. W.C. Fields III, 32, assistant United States Attorney; and Linda Weibach, 26, his former secretary; in the City of Brotherly Love, which his late grandfather, the curmudgeonly film comedian, loved to twit—as in the epitaph he wrote for his tombstone: “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.”

Died. Charles P. Gorry, 64, Associated Press photographer who covered every U.S. President from Franklin Roosevelt to Gerald Ford; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. Gorry’s 1964 picture of Lyndon Johnson lifting his pet beagle by the ears drew howls of protest from dog lovers and a week’s banishment of Gorry from the White House.

Died. Camilo Ponce Enriquez, 64, former President of Ecuador (1956-60); of a heart attack; in Quito. Ponce, elected as a Conservative with a plurality of only 29%, won liberal support by leveling his country’s raging inflation and stabilizing its economy. His administration was followed by a series of coups and military juntas.

Died. Carl Carmer, 82, American historian and novelist; after a long illness; in Bronxville, N.Y. As a young English professor at the University of Alabama after World War I, Carmer wandered through the backwoods of the state, talking with natives both black and white. The result: Stars Fell on Alabama, a vivid collection of country lore. Its success led him back home to “York State,” as he liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever. Carmer also published volumes on the Susquehanna and the Hudson rivers, which he fought to defend against pollution.

Died. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 83, who was expelled from his country in 1941 for courting the Nazis; in Paris. Following the 1934 assassination of King Alexander by Croatian nationalists, Paul became senior regent for eleven-year-old King Peter, his nephew. When his policy of conciliation with Hitler led to a popular military coup, Paul fled Yugoslavia, and Peter commanded an unsuccessful resistance to German occupation. Under British house arrest in Kenya until 1945, Paul lived in exile in Florence and Paris after the war.

Death Revealed. Nanda Devi Unsoeld, 22, an Olympia, Wash., coed and daughter of one of the first Americans to scale Mt. Everest (in 1963); of “acute high-altitude sickness” while on an expedition with her father on Nanda Devi, the 25,645-ft. peak in the Himalayas for which she was named; on Sept. 8.