Milestones, May 15, 1950

Married. Elizabeth Taylor, 18, cinemactress (Father of the Bride); and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, son of the hotel magnate; in Beverly Hills, Calif. (see PEOPLE).

Married. Libeth Adenauer, 22, youngest daughter of West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Hermann Josef Werhahn, 26, son of a Ruhr banker; at Maria Laach, Germany.

Married. Mischa Auer, 44, perch-eyed film comic (For You I Die); and Suzanne Kalish, 21, daughter of a New York chemical exporter; she for the first time, he for the third; in Rome.

Died. Agnes Smedley, 56, Missouri-born journalist, Daily Worker contributor, fervent propagandist for a Communist China (China Fights Back), free-lance...

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