Milestones: Oct. 19, 1962

Married. George Huntington Hartford II, 51, high-spending A. & P. scion, donor of Manhattan’s newest art museum; and Diane Brown. 21, willowy Manhattan model, his constant companion; he for the third time; at Melody Farm, the Hartford family fief in Wyckoff. N.J. Caught unaware as the couple hurried off on their honeymoon, Manhattan papers let on that the new Mrs. Hartford was a coal miner’s daughter, but after five days in Vermont she returned to set those “silly stories” straight. “My dad is an accountant, not a coal miner.” she said, “and I was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.” She did indeed live in Pennsylvania for a while, but it was in upper-crust Bucks County, with her divorced mother and stepfather. “He’s an architect.” College? Well. no. “College was just impossible.” So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling agency.

Married. Edith Piaf, 47, thimble-sized (4 ft. 10 in.) French songbird, frequently in and out of the hospital; and tousled Theo Sarapo (real name: Theophrasis Lambourskis), 23. a former hairdresser now her singing protege, in a ceremony that verged on riot when 2.000 frenzied fans tried to break through police lines for a ringside view; she for the second time; in Paris.

Died. Representative Clement Miller. 45, voluble, spike-witted liberal Democrat from California’s mammoth First Congressional District (San Francisco Bay to Oregon), grandson of a onetime Delaware Republican Governor, author (Member of the House, a collection of informal letters conveying the tempo of Congress to his constituents), and one of twelve liberals linked to the highly incendiary The Liberal Papers, a volume of strong-winded essays on U.S. foreign policy published last March; on a campaign swing for his third term when the twin-engined plane ferrying him crashed on Chaparral Mountain in northern California.

Died. Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas’ Abominable Snowman, dabbled in Hindu mysticism, organized world peace conferences, spent freely for studies on everything from genetics to extrasensory perception, and the 100,000 oddball gadgets that would-be inventors poured into his Institute of Inventive Research.

Died. Vivian Beaumont Allen, sixtyish, bubbly socialite art patron and philanthropist, daughter of May Co. Department Store Mogul Joseph Shoenberg, an ardent theater angel who in 1958 donated $3,000,000 toward the $8,500,000 cost of the 1,100-seat repertory theater destined for Manhattan’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Cavendish W. Cannon. 67. retired career diplomat and hardheaded troubleshooter, for 38 years a specialist on the Balkans and Middle East, whose most sensitive post was as Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1947-49) during Tito’s split with Moscow, a firm believer in a foreign service that spends more time in the field and less in theoretical studies; of a heart attack; in Moron, Spain.

Died. Emmet “Red” Ormsby, 67, American League umpire for 19 years, who liked to tell the story of the day when he was rescued from rioting fans, turned to thank the cops and was informed, “It’s our duty to assist the blind”; of a heart attack; in Chicago.

Died. Susan Dorothy Doughty. 68, genteel British sculptress and creator of the “Doughty Bird,” life-sized ceramic figurines treasured among art and porcelain collectors (from $900 for a pair of scarlet tanagers, on into the thousands for older, rarer models); of injuries received in a fall; in Cornwall, England.

Died. Pastor Arne Fjellbu. 71. Iowa-born retired Lutheran Bishop of Trondheim, Norway, who, as iron-willed dean of Trondheim Cathedral during World War II. led the church’s resistance against the Nazis’ puppet government; of a stroke; in Trondheim.

Died. Sylvia Beach, 75, pert, perky litterateuse, proprietress of Paris’ famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore and first publisher, in 1922, of James Joyce’s epic Ulysses after it was rejected as obscene in English-speaking countries; of a heart attack; in her third-floor flat in Paris. Opening her Left Bank emporium in 1921, the Baltimore-born spinster turned it into a haunt for such literary lights and lights-to-be as Pound. Cummings. Dos Passes. Hemingway. Anderson. Fitzgerald. Gide, Romains. Always closest to her heart was Joyce. “What anyone had to say interested him,” she wrote in her memoirs two years ago. “He told me he had never met a bore.” In 1941, after the Germans moved into Paris, Shakespeare and Company closed its doors. Sylvia Beach never reopened, saying: “I don’t think you should ever attempt to do anything twice.”