Milestones, Jan. 30, 1950

Married. Carl Ludwig von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, 31, fourth son of Emperor Karl I, last ruler (1916-18) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and Princess Yolande de Ligne, 26, daughter of Prince Eugene de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to India; in an elaborate ceremony performed by the Primate of Belgium, at the De Ligne family castle, Beloeil, Belgium.

Divorced. Elliott Roosevelt, 39, peripatetic author (As He Saw It); by Faye Emerson Roosevelt, actress (cinema, theater, radio, TV), his third wife (he was her second husband); after five years of marriage, no children; in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Died....

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