Milestones, Jan. 31, 1949

Married. William Turner Walton, 46, British composer (Belshazzar's Feast and the musical score for Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet); and Susana Gil de Passo, 22, daughter of an Argentine lawyer; in a religious ceremony five weeks after a civil ceremony; in Buenos Aires.

Died. Theodore Spencer, 46, Harvard University English professor (he held the famed Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first occupied by John Quincy Adams, 1806-09) and poet; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass.

Died. Paul Humiston Alling, 52, first U.S. ambassador to Pakistan; of amoebic dysentery, contracted last year while...

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