Milestones, Nov. 26, 1951

Married. Eddie Waitkus, 31, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman, who made headlines two years ago when he was shot in a Chicago hotel by a neurotic bobbysoxer; and Carol Webel, 23, Albany, N.Y. hospital worker who met Waitkus in Florida while he was convalescing; in Albany.

Married. Vladimir Zworykin, 62, Russian-born, Russian-trained physicist, the "father of television," who developed the iconoscope (eye) of the TV camera in 1923, now laments: "We never dreamed of Howdy Doody on Television — we always thought television would find its highest value in science and industry"; and Katherine Polevitzky, 62, Russian-born professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Burlington, N.J.

Died. Joseph Wilshire, 71, former board chairman of Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee, Fleischmann's yeast and gin, Royal gelatin and baking powder) ; after long illness ; in Greenwich, Conn. Beginning as a $1-a-week yeast packer for Fleischmann's, he became its president 27 years later, stayed on as president when it merged with Standard Brands. He built up perhaps the country's finest collection of coaches, phaetons, cutters and sleighs, which he habitually used for traveling about his Greenwich estate.

Died. T. .(for Thomas) Henry Foster, 76, millionaire meat magnate, president (1921-44) and since then board chairman of John Morrell & Co., the nation's fifth biggest meat-packing company, founded by his father; of a heart ailment; in Ottumwa, Iowa.

Died. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch ("Mrs. Sim"), 84, famed Manhattan social worker, agitator for public housing, woman suffrage, federal aid to education, kindergartens; in Greenwich House, the famous settlement she founded 50 years ago. With her Russian-born husband, Columbia Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, she started out by collecting $3,000 on Manhattan streets, moved into a drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater, room for sport (Gene Tunney learned to box in the Greenwich House basement). A gay, grandmotherly type, Mrs. Sim once said: "I hate to be pictured as a lovely woman doing good. I'm really pretty realistic."

Died. Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, 85, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, hereditary "Marshal of the Conclave" at which Popes are elected, dabbler in science (he was an expert on marine worms); of angina pectoris; in Rome.