Milestones, Jun. 26, 1939

Marriage Disclosed. Eleanor ("Cooky") Young, 21, onetime (1936) No. 1 Manhattan debutante; and Socialite Robert Ogden ("Bunny") Bacon Jr., 27; her first, his second; in Newport.

Married. Nina Barbara Raskob, 21, ninth of Financier John Jacob Raskob's 13 children; and Charles Wesley Lyon Jr., 23, University of Virginia Law School graduate; in Centreville, Md. Among the guests: New York's ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith.

Married. Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, 62, famed Washington correspondent of the London Times; and Socialite Mrs. Norma Bowler Hull,* 51; both for the third time, in Lorton, Va.

Died. Chick Webb, 30, hunchbacked Negro swingmaster, who with Chantress Ella Fitzgerald made a nursery jingle (A-Tisket, A-Tasket) a national musicraze; after a urological operation; in Baltimore.

Died. Eugene Weidmann, 31, amatory German murderer-for-profit who in his haunts near Paris killed six people, including Brooklyn Dancer Jean de Koven; under the guillotine; at dawn, in sight of 10,000 sensation seekers, outside Versailles prison.

Died. Ralph Pulitzer, 60, eldest son of the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer; after an abdominal operation; in Manhattan. Under his father's famed will ("I particularly enjoin upon my sons . . . the duty of preserving . . . the World newspaper to the maintenance and upbuilding of which I have sacrificed my health and strength. . . .") Ralph Pulitzer, who cared more for big game hunting than for journalism, took over the World, in its last years delegated its management to other executives, finally sold it in 1931 to the Scripps-Howard chain. Still flourishing under Brother Joseph Jr. is Pulitzer paper No. 2, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Died. Dr. William Rothwell, 71, well-loved town character, who always paid the check at parties; of heart disease; in Pawtucket, R. I. His tombstone: a boulder inscribed ". . . This is on me."

Died. Edward Sandford Martin, 83, old-school epigrammatist, author and editor, who founded The Harvard Lampoon (1876), Life (1883), occupied "The Editor's Easy Chair" on Harper's Magazine (1920-35); of injuries after a fall; in Manhattan.

Died. Oklahoma Jim Moore, 87, old-time Indian fighter, lately technical adviser for Hollywood horse operas; in Strongsville, Ohio. Bearded, long-maned Oklahoma Jim was believed to be the last surviving eyewitness to the shooting of Wild Bill Hickock in a Deadwood, S. D. saloon, Aug. 2, 1876.