Milestones, Jan. 18, 1954

Married. Maria Isabella Patino y Bourbon, 18, Bolivian tin millionheiress; and James Michael Goldsmith, 20, son of a wealthy London hotelman; in Kelso, Scotland (see PEOPLE).

Divorced. Paul Gallico, 56, veteran sportswriter and popular author (Trial by Terror, The Snow Goose); by his third wife, Pauline Garibaldi Gallico, onetime Hungarian baroness; after nearly 15 years of marriage, no children; in Virginia City, Nev.

Died. Chester Wilmot, 42, Australian-born military correspondent, best-known in the U.S. for his bestselling 1952 book, The Struggle for Europe; in the crash of a British jet airliner off Italy's west...

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