Milestones, Feb. 25, 1974

Married. Peter Cook, 37, loony, straight-faced British comedian who, with Dudley Moore, wrote and starred in the 1967 film Bedazzled and two theatrical revues, Beyond the Fringe (1960-64) and the current Good Evening; and Judy Huxtable, 29, British movie actress (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, The Touchables); both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Died. Theodore Carl Link, 69, tenacious crime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and former combat Marine in the South Pacific; of an apparent heart attack; in University City, Mo.

Link was a classic investigator who often shook hoodlums by their lapels to get them to tell...

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