Milestones, Jan. 27, 1947

Married. Diana Barrymore, 25, actress-daughter of the late, oft-wed Great Profile and Poetess Michael Strange (Mrs. Oelrichs Tweed); to John Howard, 23, tennis pro; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. Elizabeth Brooke (“Princess Pearl”), 33, second daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, former Raja of Sarawak (he ceded his 50,000-square-mile territory to Great Britain seven months ago); by Harry (“Little Hotcha Muchacha”) Roy, 46, pint-sized British bandleader (he composed their wedding march, Sarawaki); after twelve years of marriage, two children ; in London.

Divorced. Lord Ashley, 46, heir to the Earldom of Shaftesbury; by his second Lady,* the former Mile. Françoise Soulier, 36; after ten years of marriage, two children; in London.

Died. Dr. Pedro Leão Velloso, 60, Brazil’s Foreign Minister (1944-46) and chief of the Brazilian delegation to the U.N. Security Council and General Assembly, longtime friend of the U.S. and its Good Neighbor policy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Lieut. General Daniel Isom Sultan, 61, Inspector General of the U.S. Army who relieved the late General Joseph Stilwell as wartime commanding general of the India-Burma Theater, first soldier to receive four Distinguished Service Medals; of a heart ailment; in Washington.

Died. Jean Marie Rodrigue, Cardinal Villeneuve, 63, Archbishop of Quebec, leader and top ranking prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada; of a heart ailment; in Alhambra, Calif, (see CANADA) .

Died. Arthur Cayley Headlam, 84, Britain’s blunt, white-maned Bishop of Gloucester (1923-45), who was largely responsible for bringing about intercommunion between the Church of England and Europe’s “Old Catholics” (a sect formed in 1870 by Roman Catholics who refused to subscribe to the doctrine of papal infallibility), was famed as one of the foremost Anglican scholars of his generation; in Durham, England.

Died. Andrew J. Volstead, 87, tobacco-chewing, publicity-shy country lawyer who co-authored (with the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas) and gave his name to the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, which implemented the 18th Amendment; in Granite Falls, Minn.

*His first: Musicomedienne Sylvia Hawkes, a pub keeper’s daughter, whom he divorced in 1935, naming her future second husband, the late film actor, Douglas Fairbanks, as corespondent. In 1944 she married Baron Stanley of Alderley.