Milestones

Married. John ("Pick up the check") Meyer, 43, Howard Hughes's free-spending wartime pressagent, whose Sybaritic expense account was the subject of a Senate investigation into government contract-letting; and Patti Lydon, 24, Hollywood brunette; both for the second time; in Las1 Vegas, Nev.

Married. Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, 64, head of the Methodist Council of Bishops (he performed the marriage ceremony of the Alben.Barkleys), onetime president of the Federal Council of Churches; and Mrs. Hugh A. Carithers, 56, a widow of Winder, Ga.; in Greenwich, Conn. Bishop Holt's first wife died in 1948.

Divorced. Milton Berle, 41, TV's No. 1 funnyman; by Joyce Mathews, 29, actress; after seven intermittent years (married in 1941, divorced in 1947, remarried last June), one adopted daughter (Victoria, 4); in the Virgin Islands.

Died. Dr. Charles Richard Drew, 45, pioneer in the collection and use of blood plasma, chief surgeon for Washington's Freedman Hospital; in an automobile accident; near Burlington, N.C. For supervising New York's blood donations to bombed Britain and directing the first Red Cross collection unit for the U.S. armed forces, he won the 1943 Spingarn Award "for the highest achievement by an American Negro."

Died. Kurt Weill, 50, German-born composer of topflight musicals (Lady in the Dark, One Touch of Venus), who collaborated with Playwright Maxwell Anderson on the current Broadway smash hit, Lost in the Stars; of heart trouble; in Manhattan.

Died. Laurence Adolphe Steinhardt, 57, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, early New Deal diplomat who since 1937 had served as Ambassador to Peru, Soviet Russia, Turkey and Czechoslovakia; in the crash of a U.S. embassy plane; near Ottawa, Ont. (see THE HEMISPHERE).

Died. Recep Peker, 62, "strong man" follower of Kemal Ataturk in the 1923 founding of the Turkish Republic, who as Turkish Premier in 1946 helped block the Russian bid for joint control of the Dardanelles; in Istanbul.

Died. Leon Blum, 77, three-time Premier of France, longtime Socialist Party leader (1924-50), wartime prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp; at his country home near Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Julia Arthur, 80, Canada-born Shakespearean actress of the 1890s, widow of multimillionaire Yachtsman-Financier Benjamin P. Cheney (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad); in Boston.

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