Milestones: May 17, 1963

Married. Peter Snell, 24, New Zealand’s world record holder for the mile and half mile; and Sally Turner, 20, his longtime sweetheart; in Papakura, N.Z.

Married. Carol Burnett, 28, TV comedienne; and Joseph Hamilton, 34, TV producer, who divorced his wife of 15 years (eight children) the day before; both for the second time; in Juarez, Mexico.

Marriage Revealed. Mary Ure, 30, British stage and screen actress (Look Back in Anger); and Robert Shaw, 35, actor (The Caretaker) and novelist (The Hiding Place); both for the second time; in Amersham, Bucks, April 13. Later last week, Actress Ure announced the birth of their daughter; in London, April 29.

Divorced. By Stirling Moss, 33, Britain’s recently retired auto racing champion: Katherine Stuart Molson Moss, 27, who left him in 1959, unable to stand the racing pace; on uncontested grounds of desertion; after five years of marriage, no children; in London.

Died. Eugene Alan (“Big Daddy”) Lipscomb, 31, fearsome all-pro colossus (6 ft. 6 in., 288 Ibs., 7-ft. arm spread) for the Baltimore Colts from 1956 to 1960 and then for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the “fastest big, big man” in football; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Baltimore. Someone once asked him why he solicitously helped up the opponents he had flattened. “I don’t want people or kids to think Big Daddy is a cruel man,” he explained.

Died. Mohammed Khemisti, 32, Algeria’s young Foreign Minister, a staunch backer and longtime friend of Premier ben Bella, who put aside old hatreds to become the prime architect of Algeria’s post-revolutionary cooperation with France, winning himself the high respect of Western diplomats; of a head wound received 24 days earlier when an insane Moslem shot him at point-blank range; in Algiers.

Died. Dr. Harold Fred Dorn, 56, statistician of the U.S. National Institutes of Health whose 1958 study of 198,926 service veterans showed an increase among smokers in the number of deaths due to lung cancer (six times as many deaths for all smokers, nine times as many for cigarette smokers), and led to the U.S. Public Health Service’s acknowledgement in 1959 that cigarettes were a cause of cancer; of cancer of the kidney; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Wilfred Theodore (“Ted”) Weems, 62, bandleader and creator of the “businessman’s bounce,” which carried him to the top of the bigtime in the ’30s and again briefly in 1947 when his Heartaches was a surprise smash, bringing the flappers-turned-matrons back for just one more go-round; of a pulmonary emphysema; in Tulsa, Okla.

Died. Meyrich Edward Clifton James, 65, British character actor who played his greatest role in 1944 just before D-day when he fooled the Germans into believing that he was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery on an inspection tour of North Africa and that the invasion was therefore still some time away; after a long illness; in Worthing, Sussex.

Died. Per Jacobsson, 69, managing director of the International Monetary Fund: of a heart attack; in London (see WORLD BUSINESS).

Died. René Fülôp-Miller, 72, multi-faceted biographer (Rasputin: The Holy Devil, 1928), historian (The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, 1930), novelist (The Night of Time, 1955) and student of psychology, philosophy and Communism, a Hungarian-born pharmacist’s son who journeyed to Leningrad in 1923 where he studied in Pavlov’s Institute of Experimental Medicine while observing Bolshevism’s early years, then went to Vienna in 1927 to study with Freud for a year before joining a colony of Greek hermit monks, and in 1930 came to the U.S. where he settled, finally becoming a lecturer in sociology at Manhattan’s Hunter College from 1954 to 1962; of pneumonia; in Hanover, N.H.

Died. Edgar Montillion Woolley, 74, onetime Yale drama professor whose magnificent white beard (“the historic trademark of genius”) and outrageously imperial mien made him the perfect Man Who Came to Dinner, a role he first played on Broadway in 1939, continued on stage, screen, TV and in private for the rest of his life; of kidney and heart ailments; in Albany, N.Y.

Died. Sir Howard Morley Robertson, 74, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1952 to 1954, a curiously two-sided architect who remained firmly on the side of tradition in such sound and solid buildings as the British pavilions at four international exhibitions and the New Royal Horticultural Hall in London, but gained his greatest fame as a highly progressive teacher of the ’20s and ’30s, encouraging his students to follow the emerging modern architecture that he never employed in his own work; after a long illness; in London.

Died. Theodore von Karman, 81, premier aerodynamicist; of a heart attack; in Aachen, West Germany (see SCIENCE).

Died. Jacques Guerlain, 88, longtime co-director (with his late brother Pierre) of Maison Guerlain, a leisure-time collector of French impressionists, who in the family tradition personally oversaw the development of all new perfumes, among them such best-sellers as L’Heure Bleue. Mitsouko. Shalimar; after a long illness; in Paris.