Milestones, Nov. 27, 1950

Married. Barbara Ward, 36, convent-bred, primly pretty British author (The West at Bay), former editor of London's influential Economist; and Australian Naval Officer Robert Jackson, 39; he for the second time; in Felixstowe, England.

Died. Louis Stix Weiss, 56, top lawyer for Chicago's Millionaire Marshall Field III, since 1942 chairman of the board of the New School for Social Research; of a coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.

Died. Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob"), 71, Vermont-born Ohio doctor and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous; after long illness; in Akron. In 1935 Smith met a visiting Manhattan stockbroker, "Bill W.," in Akron. Both alcoholics, they decided that...

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