MILESTONES

Engaged. Maria Virginia Zimbalist, 22, daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist and of onetime operatic Soprano Alma Gluck, half-sister of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; to Ogden Goelet, 30, once-divorced Newport & Manhattan socialite.

Engaged. Katherine Gibbs ("Kay") Francis Gaston Meehan MacKenna, 33, cinemactress (White Angel, First Lady, Mary Stevens M.D.); to Raven Erik Barnekow, 41, minor German baron; in Hollywood.

Eloped. Joseph White Wilshire III, 23, son of the president of Standard Brands Inc.; with Anna Falck, 22, niece of Standard Brands's Vice President Paul W. Fleischmann; to Elkton, Md. Young Wilshire, whose hobby is driving his own fire engine, was received by his family after the elopement with open arms. "She is," they said, "an utterly delightful girl."

Divorced. Ogden Haggerty ("Oggie") Hammond Jr., son of the onetime (1925-29) U. S. Ambassador to Spain, by Edythe Sterling Hammond; in Reno.

Died. Sir James MacBrien, 59, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; of cancer; in Toronto. A hard-bitten trooper who once said, "Security without peace is better than peace without security," Sir James mechanized the red-coated Mounties, giving them motorcars, airplanes, motorcycles, motorboats.

Died. James Howell Post, 78, who rose from a $3-per-week office boy to be chairman of the board of a $26,000,000 industry. National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey; after a short illness; in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Died. George Foster Peabody, 85, philanthropist and educator, trustee of Warm Springs Foundation, owner of "Yaddo," retreat for artists & authors at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; of heart disease in Warm Springs, Ga. In 25 years with Manhattan's Spencer Trask & Co. he built up a huge fortune. Said he: "But when I came to see in 1906 that the money which I had amassed was the work of others, I then and there decided to retire from business and become my own executor, to administer for the people that which rightfully belonged to them."

Died. Julia Richards, III, famed cigar-smoking centenarian of Yolo County, Calif.; of old age; in Yolo.

Death Revealed. Of George Charles Beresford, 72, original McTurk of Kipling's Stalky & Co.; in Brighton, Eng.; fortnight ago. After school with Stalky (Major-General Lionel Charles Dunsterville) and Beetle (Kipling) at Westward Ho! he went to India as an engineer, contracted malaria, returned to England, became an antique dealer and photographer.

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