Milestones: Nov. 19, 1965

Born. To Art Arfons, 39, new land speed-record holder, who drove his jet-powered Green Monster at 576.5 m.p.h. last week to recapture the record that Craig Breedlove had taken from him only five days before (TIME, Nov. 12), and June Arfons, 41: their third child, first daughter; in Akron, Ohio.

Married. Princess Anastasia of Prussia, 21, great-granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, a Frankfurt kindergarten teacher; and Prince Aloys-Konstantin, 23, law student at Würzburg University; in Erbach, Germany.

Divorced. Mel Torme, 40, jazz singer; and Arlene Torme, 35; in a double decree granted on grounds of mutual cruelty; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.

Died. Beth Ann Simon, 24, a New Jersey housewife who nine months ago sought spiritual relief in the austere, so-called longevity-promoting diet prescribed by Japanese Zen Philosopher George Ohsawa (Zen Macrobiotics), thereafter subsisting chiefly on whole-grain cereal; apparently of malnutrition, her weight having dropped from 120 Ibs. to 70 Ibs.; in Clifton, N.J.

Died. Dr. Hans Moritsch, 41, Austrian virus researcher, director of the Vienna University Hygiene Institute, renowned for his pioneering work on human and tick-borne encephalitis; of herpes simplex encephalitis, a rare virus transmitted only by humans, apparently contracted during his laboratory experiments; in Vienna.

Died. Florence Pritchett Smith, 45, wife of former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1957-59) and Kennedy Friend Earl E.T. Smith, onetime Powers model (at age 14), radio commentator (This Is Florence Pritchett), TV panelist (Leave It to the Girls) and, most recently, New York Journal-American food columnist; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Frederick H. Rohr, 69, founder and chairman of Rohr Corp., leading U.S. aircraft subcontractor, a mechanic who built and installed all the metalwork on Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, in 1940 formed a company that today grosses $128 million a year making parts for jet aircraft; following a stroke; in San Diego, Calif.

Died. Sigmund Spaeth, 80, prolific author of music-appreciation texts (Music for Fun), remembered by radio and vaudeville audiences of the 1920s and 1930s as the razzle-dazzle “Tune Detective” who blithely traced the ancestry of I’m Always Chasing Rainbows to Chopin’s Fantaisie Impromptu and Yes, We Have No Bananas to Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Manhattan.

Died. Edgard Varese, 81, Paris-born avant-garde composer, whose ear-shattering attempts (with sirens, sleigh bells, clanking chains) to extend the boundaries of music beyond conventional instruments went unnoticed until the mid-1950s, when the noisy young composers of electronic music “rediscovered” him and hailed him as their mas ter; of complications following surgery; in Manhattan.

Died. Julius T. Long, 86, elder brother of Louisiana’s Huey and Earl Long, a onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey’s political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother “the greatest political burglar of all times”; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport, La.

Died. James Mills, 88, last surviving link to the still-unsolved 1922 Hall-Mills murder case (the much-publicized slaying of his wife, New Jersey Choir Singer Eleanor Mills, and her church-rector lover, the Rev. Edward Hall), a mild-mannered church sexton who continued to deny knowledge of any aspect of the crime; of arteriosclerosis; in Menlo Park, N.J.

Died. Frank D. Stranahan, 89, co-founder (in 1907, with his late brother Robert) and co-chairman of the Champion Spark Plug Co., world’s largest independent spark plug manufacturer, with 1964 sales of $124 million; after a long illness; in Toledo.