Milestones, Jan. 28, 1974

Married. William ("Dollar Bill") Bradley, 30, reserved 6-ft. 5-in. forward for the New York Knicks basketball team, former Rhodes scholar and America's top college ballplayer during his Princeton days; and Ernestine Schlant, an associate professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College in New Jersey, who met Bradley while she was working on a film about Poetess Marianne Moore several years ago; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Josef Smrkovsky, 62, liberal chairman of the Czechoslovak National Assembly during the ill-fated "Prague spring" of 1968; of cancer; in Prague. Smrkovsky entered government service...

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