Milestones, Nov. 30, 1953

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Married. Captain Manuel J. ("Pete") Fernandez Jr., 28, the Air Force's No. 3 ace of the Korean war (14½ MIGs); and Jean Marie Eberman, 26, National Airlines stewardess; with Captain Joseph McConnell Jr., No. 1 jet ace (16 MIGs), serving as an usher; in Miami.

Died. Edwin M. Fleischmann, 61, millionaire Maryland distiller (distant kin of the late gin and yeast heir Max Fleischmann), who in 1933 founded the Calvert Distilling Co., which later became part of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams; of cancer; in Baltimore.

Died. Arthur George Waters, 65, editor of Britain's (and the world's) best-selling newspaper, the sexy, crime-packed Sunday News of the World (circ. 8,230,158); after long illness; in Brockham, England.

Died. Wu Te-chen, 65, onetime Vice Premier and Foreign Minister of Nationalist China (1948-49), secretary general of the Kuomintang Party (1941-49), and mayor of Shanghai (1932-37); after long illness; in Taipeh, Formosa.

Died. Savely Sorine, 74, Russian-born portrait artist, best known for his delicate paintings of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Russia's late great ballerina, Pavlova, Actress Lillian Gish; in Manhattan.