Milestones, Jan. 1, 1945

Married. Walter Sherman Gifford, 59, high-domed, precise president of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., father of two Navy sons (the elder lost in the South Pacific last July); and Augustine ("Tine") Lloyd Perry, 50, mother of four sons in the armed services; both for the second time; in Pompano, Fla.

Married. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, 64, a widower since 1939, aloof, dictatorial publisher of Chicago's blatant Tribune; and Maryland Mathison Hooper, 47, sprightly, modish society matron, ex-Baltimore belle, longtime intimate of the Colonel and his late wife, recently divorced from Chicago Fuel Dealer Henry Hooper; both for the...

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