Milestones: Oct. 14, 1966

Married. Lieut, (j.g.) Dieter Dengler, 28, German-born U.S. Navy pilot who last July became the first captured airman to escape from North Viet Nam, after six months of torture and imprisonment; and Marina Adamich, 24, Yugoslavian-born Stanford University chemistry research assistant, his fiancee of two years, who said, days before the wedding: “He’s changed. We just could never marry now,” but then obviously changed her mind; in Reno.

Married. Pamela Turnure, 28, press secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy since 1961 (she plans to continue in the job); and Robert Timmins, 36, son of Canadian Mining Millionaire Jules Timmins and a senior partner in the family brokerage firm; both for the first time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Manhattan, followed by a reception at Jackie’s Fifth Avenue apartment.

Married. Dolores Gray, 40, tall, trumpet-voiced musical star (Broadway’s Destry, Hollywood’s Kismet); and Andrew Crevolin, 56, wealthy California auto dealer and horse breeder (his Determine won the 1954 Kentucky Derby); she for the first time, he for the fourth; in Pomona, Calif.

Married. Robert Moses, 77, New York’s onetime power, park and parkway czar, now chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority; and Mary Grady, 50, an Authority secretary for 30 years; she for the first time, he for the second (one month after his first wife died); in Jersey City.

Divorced. By Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill Russell, 44, daughter of the Duke of Marlborough and partner, with Chilean-born Art Dealer Guy Burgos, in Manhattan’s Burgos Galleries: Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; on grounds of extreme cruelty, after 23 years of marriage, four children; in Reno.

Divorced. David Merrick, 54, Broadway’s hitster and resident Beelzebub; by Jeanne Gibson Merrick, 38, former publicity director of London’s Savoy Hotel; on grounds of “incompatibility of characters”; after 19 months of marriage, one child; in Juárez, Mexico. After the divorce, the ex-Mrs. Merrick placed a public notice in the New York Times: “My husband, David Merrick, having left my bed and board, I will no longer be responsible for his debts.”

Died. Edward Tirella, 42, interior decorator and sometime actor (he designed the set for The Sandpiper, had a small role in the film), longtime friend and frequent house guest of Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke; of multiple fractures and internal injuries suffered on the Duke estate; in Newport, R.I. Leav ing the estate in a car driven by Miss Duke, Tirella got out to open the iron gates, was crushed to death when the car suddenly shot forward.

Died. Joseph F. McGinnis, 61, Boston gangster and mastermind of the 1950 Brinks robbery—biggest haul ($2,775,395, of which only $56,586 has been recovered) in U.S. history—who had an alibi on the night of the crime, but was betrayed by a member of his ten-man gang, convicted, and given nine concurrent life sentences; of arteriosclerosis; at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, at Walpole.

Died. Dr. Richard E. Shope, 64, pioneer virologist, who in 38 years at the Rockefeller Institute was the first to isolate an influenza virus (1931) and the first to prove that a virus could cause cancer in rabbits (1932), scored two other feats by surviving a form of meningitis (caught from lab mice) rarely found in humans and by being one of the few to survive eastern equine encephalitis without brain damage; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan.

Died. Sherman Billingsley, 66, founder and owner of the Stork Club, which for two decades was Manhattan’s most noted nightclub and for half that time le plus chic; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A bootlegger in the ’20s, Billingsley opened the Stork in 1929, coddled columnists and flattered the famous. Walter Winchell publicized the joint, Brenda Frazier brought her friends, Ethel Merman came with the show folks (and got a diamond bracelet inscribed “From Sherm to Merm”); pretty girls, famous or not, got gifts of perfume, gold Stork keys, jeweled compacts. In the ’50s, arrogance at the door and labor troubles in the kitchen signaled the end that the discotheques finally accomplished in 1965.

Died. Maurine Doran Clark, 74, wife of retired General Mark Clark, whose 1956 book, Captain’s Bride, General’s Lady, tells about her experiences in Army posts, where she won praise as a gracious hostess and the tribute “my five-star wife” from her four-star husband; of a heart attack; in Pinopolis, S.C.

Died. George Magerkurth, 77, National League umpire from 1929 to 1947, a 6-ft.-4-in. ex-heavyweight boxer with a bulldog face and a growl to match, who set the tone of his career by bouncing John J. McGraw in the first game he worked, became the terror of such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia; in Rock Island, Ill.