Milestones, May 21, 1945

Divorced. By Ida Lupino, 27, big-eyed, high-strung cinemactress (The Hard Way): Cinemactor Louis Hayward, 36, ex-Marine Corps captain; after nearly seven years of marriage; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Humphrey Bogart, 45, cinema bad man already engaged to his current leading lady, Lauren ("The Look") Bacall; by his third wife, onetime Cine mactress Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot Bo gart ; after nearly seven years in the mari tal ring; in Las Vegas, Nev. Sluggy 's official charges: "Extreme cruelty." Her unofficial reaction: "A very pleasant mar riage." Died. The Reverend Eric Liddell, 44, Scottish athlete and missionary to China; in a Japanese internment camp. At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, Theology Student Liddell refused to run his special ty, the 100-meter dash, on Sunday, next day set Olympic and world records with a 47-6-second 400-meter.

Died. Colonel General Alexander Sergeivich Shcherbakov, 44, massive (300 Ibs.) Communist man-of-all-political-work and longtime friend of Stalin, who was simultaneously head of the Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo, chief of the Red Army's political department, secretary of the Central Communist Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool million, got temporarily suspended. In 1934, Angler Howell reeled in a 956-lb. tuna to cop the world's record. Of his fishing-& -trading methods he once observed: "I go along, ask no quarter, and doIt't give any." Died. Achmed Abdullah, 64, bemono-cled fictioneer `Who gathered material for his intrigue-filled potboilers by living a fiction-like life — working simultaneously as a Turkish cavalryman and a British secret agent, dealing faro in Nevada, play ing poker for a cap and gloves during a 50-below-zero Tibetan blizzard ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. John Reynard Todd, 77, lean, legally trained builder and manager of Manhattan's blossom-bedecked Rockefeller Center, and an avid amateur horticulturist (like his good friend Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.