Milestones, Oct. 30, 1978

MARRIED. Benjamin C. Bradlee, 57, executive editor of the Washington Post; and Sally Quinn, 37, staff writer for the Post style section who briefly co-hosted the CBS Morning News; he for the third time, she for the first; in Washington.

DIED. W. Eugene Smith, 59, renowned photojournalist whose work strongly reflected his own compassionate nature; after falling and striking his head while recovering from a stroke; in Tucson, Ariz. A native Kansan who began his career at age 14 on Wichita's newspapers, Smith was critically injured on Okinawa in 1944 while on wartime assignment...

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