Milestones: Sep. 23, 1966

Married. Mandy Rice-Davies, 21, baby-faced second lead to Star Christine Keeler in Britain's 1963 Profumo scan dals; and Rafael Shaul, 26, an Israeli airline steward; in London.

Married. William Randolph Hearst II, 23, grandson of the publisher and a business student at the University of San Francisco; and Jennifer Gooch, 23, an art student; in Manhattan.

Married. Wendy Marcus, 27, younger daughter of Nieman-Marcus President Stanley Marcus, a press aide assigned to Lynda and Luci through the

1964 campaign; and Henry Raymont, 39, a New York Times general-assignment reporter; both for the first time; in Manhattan.

Married. Katherine Woodruff Field, 38, Chicago socialite, second wife (of three) of the late Marshall Field Jr.; and Lawrence Fanning, 52, until last December editor of Field's Chicago Daily News, who has just resigned from the Field Enterprises, is now looking for a new post; she for the second time, he for the third; in Bensenville, III.

Married. Omar Bradley, 73, retired five-star general, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949-1953), board chairman of Bulova Watch Co.; and Esther Dora Buhler, 44, longtime family friend and TV scriptwriter (My Three Sons, The Cara Williams Show), who is writing a movie scenario of Bradley's life; she for the third time, he for the second (his first wife died last December); in Del Mar, Calif.

Died. James H. Moyers, 39, Bill's older brother, also a White House aide, who was an editor of the Marshall (Texas) News Messenger, then a public relations man for the Freeport Sulphur Co., before joining the President's staff last year as a speechwriter; apparently of a heart attack; in McLean, Va.

Died. John Charles Herndon, 55, Idaho Democratic gubernatorial candidate, a relatively unknown lawyer whose slim hopes of winning in November increased last month when State Senator Don W. Samuelson defeated incumbent Governor Robert Smylie for the Republican nomination; of injuries suffered when a light plane taking him to a political meeting crashed; near Stanley, Idaho.

Died. Monsignor Frederick Hochwalt, 57, executive secretary of the National Catholic Educational Association, an eloquent spokesman for the church's position that parochial schools should share in aid to education, a view he helped persuade Congress to incorporate in the

1965 Education Act; of an intestinal hemorrhage; aboard a cruise ship midway between Tangier and Venice.

Died. Gertrude Berg, 66, actress-writer, originator and star of radio-TV's The Goldbergs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Raised in the large, loving lap of an East Harlem Jewish family ("We didn't have Tennessee Williams problems," she once said. "It was more George Kaufman"), she had only to elaborate on her memories ("Yoohoo, Mrs. Bloom!") to sustain the 25-year run of her show, whose momentum carried her to Hollywood (Molly) and Broadway (A Majority of One) as leading popularizer of the formidable art of Jewish motherhood.