Milestones, Apr. 26, 1943

Married. Cinemactress Linda (Monette Eloyse) Darnell, 19; and Sergeant J. Peverell Marley, 42, peacetime ace cameraman; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Killed in Action. Brigadier Frederick Hermann Kisch, 64, the British Eighth Army's chief engineer, who built Montgomery's El Alamein fortifications; by a mine explosion; near Sousse, Tunisia. Born in British India, he attended the Royal Military Academy in England, was thrice decorated for bravery in World War I, later served for nine years as chairman of Palestine's Zionist Executive Committee in the negotiations with Britain.

Died. Nancy Traylor Souder, 29, wife of wealthy Kansas...

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