Milestones, Aug. 28, 1950

Married. Princess Alix, 20, daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg; and Prince Antoine de Ligne, 25, Belgian air force captain, son of the Belgian ambassador to India; in Luxembourg.

Married. Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 23; and Jennifer Howard, 24, daughter of the late playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted); he for the first time, she for the second; in Berkeley, Calif.

Divorced. By Rosa Melba Ponselle, 53, longtime (1918-37) Metropolitan Opera diva: Carle Andrew Jackson, 45, son of Howard Wilkinson Jackson, onetime mayor of Baltimore; after 13 years of marriage, no children; in Baltimore.

Died. Christopher Smith Reynolds, 17, only son...

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