Milestones, Jun. 9, 1947

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Married. Buff Cobb, 20, cinemactress granddaughter of Humorist Irvin Cobb; and Cinemactor William Eythe, 29; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan.

Married. Anne Moen Bullitt, 23, dark-haired daughter of Philadelphia's William Bullitt, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France; and Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle, 25, son of Philadelphia's Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., onetime U.S. Ambassador to Poland; she for the second time, he for the first; in Washington.

Married. Aerielle Frazer Strutt, 29, daughter of Automaker Joseph Washington Frazer (Kaiser-Frazer); and Eric Eweson, 49, Manhattan fertilizer chemist; both for the second time; in Newport, R.I.

Died. Adrienne Ames, 39, onetime cinemactress, chitchat radio commentator (on Manhattan's WHN); of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn.

Died. Jimmie Wilson, 46, one of baseball's topflight catchers, who rip-roared to fame with the St. Louis Cardinals' "Gas House Gang"; of a heart attack; in Bradenton, Fla., where he had retired to his fruit plantation. Wilson had a nightcap of glory in the 1940 World Series as coach of the Cincinnati Reds; at 40, he hauled on his catcher's harness, helped the Reds win the series victory.

Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Evans Fordyce Carlson, 51, gaunt, battle-scarred onetime commander of "Carlson's (Gung Ho) Raiders," whose exploits as a commander on Makin and Guadalcanal bolstered U.S. morale in World War II's early days, whose penchant for leadership in Communist-fringe organizations dismayed his fellow generals of the U.S. Marine Corps; of a heart attack; in Portland, Ore.

Died. Baron Georg von Trapp, 67, World War I chief of Austria's tiny submarine fleet, manager and nonsinging head of the Trapp Family Singers; of cancer, in Stowe, Vt. The choir (buxom Baroness von Trapp, seven daughters and two sons), ran away from the Nazis in 1938, became a top U.S. concert attraction.

Died. William A. Morgan, 75, Buffalo financier (no kin of the late J.P.), who virtually cornered the world copper market during World War I; after long illness; in Buffalo.