Milestones, Nov. 26, 1956

Married. Joseph Wilbur (Joe) Adcock, 29, lofty (6 ft. 4 in.), fence-busting first baseman for the Milwaukee Braves; and pretty, brunette Secretary Joan James, 23; in Dodgeville. Wis.

Died. Vice Admiral Ralph Andrew Ofstie, 59, bemedaled onetime hot Navy pilot (he set three speed records for seaplanes in a 1924 meet), later commander of naval forces in the Far East (1951-52), who served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group for the 1946 Bikini tests, in 1949 declared that strategic atomic bombing was little more than "random mass slaughter," militarily unsound and morally...

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