Milestones, Aug. 25, 1947

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Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan's special "peace" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a civilian employed by MacArthur's headquarters; in Yokohama, in a ceremony attended by neither her father nor her New York-born Caucasian mother.

Married. Serge Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, 73, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Olga Naumoff, 46, spinster niece of his second wife (who died in 1942), and his secretary for 18 years; near Lenox, Mass.

Died. John Carl ("Jack") Kriendler, 48, who in partnership with Charlie Berns ran a Greenwich Village speakeasy in the early '205, eventually moved up to better-heeled 52nd Street where Jack & Charlie's "21" Club became world famed for serving elegant food & drink to Manhattan's glossiest people; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Dieo!. Elliott Carr Cutler, 59, one of the nation's top heart and brain surgeons, a wartime brigadier general, successor to the late, famed Harvey Gushing as Moseley Professor at Harvard Medical School; of cancer; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Pearl L. Bergoff, 72, tough, unlettered Michigan boy who grew up to be the nation's most active strikebreaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Bergoff once offered management an expensive but efficient service: he would ship hired thugs to the scene of a strike, keep business moving with pate cracking and machine-gun fire until the union backed down. Driven out of business in 1936 by-federal legislation, Pearl retired, mellowed, announced last year: ". . . If I had my life to live over ... I'd be for labor, I'd be another John L. Lewis."

Died. Prince Eugen of Sweden, 82, bachelor youngest brother of King Gustav V; of a heart attack; in Stockholm. The prince spent most of his unexciting life painting unexciting landscapes which decorate many a loyal Swedish public building.