Milestones, Mar. 28, 1955

Married. Elizabeth Bradley Beukema. 30, only daughter of General of the Army Omar Bradley; and Benjamin Henry Dorsey Jr., 31, Washington lawyer; she for the second time (her first: Air Force Major Henry Shaw Beukema, who was killed in a jet crash last year), he for the first; in Washington.

Married. John Sherman Cooper, 53, newly appointed Ambassador to India, 1954 defeated G.O.P. Senator from Kentucky; and Lorraine Rowan Shevlin. 48, onetime “best-dressed” Washington socialite; he for the second time, she for the third; in Pasadena, Calif.

Died. Nicolas de Staël, 41, Russian-born French semi-abstract painter, who troweled slabs of paint on to canvas to create his famed, richly colored oils; in a leap from his third-floor apartment; in Antibes.

Died. Harry Shulman, 52, Russian-born dean of the Yale Law School, and widely respected professional labor arbitrator (since 1943 permanent umpire for, among others, United Auto Workers v. Ford); in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Marshal Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, 58, Soviet Deputy Defense Minister and Red army artillery specialist, in 1945 proclaimed a Hero of the Soviet Union for breaking the German ring around Leningrad; after long illness; somewhere in the Soviet Union.

Died. Theodor Plievier, 63, bestselling German author, renowned for his three World War II novels describing the fighting on the Russian front (Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin); of a heart attack; in Avegno, Switzerland. Plievier turned to Communism shortly after World War I, wrote several anti-war novels in the early 19305, fled to Russia to become an official propagandist when the Nazis came to power. Disillusioned with the Soviet Union (although not with theoretical Communism), Plievier took refuge in U.S.-occupied Bavaria in 1947.

Died. Joseph F. Cullman Jr., 72, president of Cullman Brothers, Inc., director and chairman of the executive committee of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc.; in Manhattan. Cullman added Benson & Hedges to the family interests in 1941, built up B. & H.’s Parliament brand into the first nationally known filter cigarette. In 1953 he negotiated a merger with Philip Morris.

Died. Count Michael Karolyi, 80, one of the founders (in 1918) and first President of the Hungarian Republic; in Vence, France. Karolyi lived in exile through the years of the Horthy regime, returned after World War II, was Red Hungary’s Ambassador to Paris from 1947 until his retirement in 1949.