Milestones, Jan. 6, 1947

Married. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 43, publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, chairman of the board of the Minneapolis Star-Journal & Tribune Co., president of Look; and Fleur Fenton, 33, Manhattan advertising consultant; both for the second time; in Stamford, Conn.

Died. Ellen McAdoo de Onate Hinshaw, 31, telephone-operator granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; by her own hand (she swallowed an overdose of sleeping tablets, then phoned a friend: "Well, I've done it"); in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Dixie Tighe (rhymes with Zweig), 41,...

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