Milestones: Jun. 27, 1969

Married. Pamela Lee Agnew, 25, eldest daughter of Vice President Spiro Agnew; and Robert E. DeHaven, 25, teacher in the Maryland school system; in a Presbyterian ceremony attended by 350 guests (among them, President and Mrs. Nixon); in Towson, Md.

Died. Judy Garland, 47, mercurial grand mistress of song, whose throaty musical mixture of innocence and experience won fierce affection from her fans despite sometimes erratic performances; in London, where her body was discovered in a bathroom of her house in Chelsea. “I’ve been through a lot,” she once explained after a tardy appearance. “We love you, Judy,” the audience replied. Born Francess Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., to parents in vaudeville, she made her stage debut at 3 and became a national legend at 17 in the film The Wizard of Oz by singing of her longing to be somewhere Over the Rainbow. She attempted suicide in 1950 but then had wildly successful concert comebacks and won Oscar nominations for dramatic roles in A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. She married her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, 34, a former discotheque manager, in London Mar. 15.

Died. Clint Murchison Sr., 74, epitome of the Texas wheeler-dealer and one of the world’s wealthiest men; of a heart attack; in Athens, Texas. Murchison went into wildcat drilling in his 20s, borrowing and trading for new wells (“financing by finaglin’,” he called it), and soon was bringing in wells at a rate of 40 a year. By 1925, at age 30, he was worth $5,000,000, and he had hardly started. Leaping from venture to venture, merging and consolidating, he expanded into railroads, buslines and publishing until at one point he was said to control 115 companies spread from Canada to South America. Estimates of his wealth ranged up to $600 million, but Murchison never bothered to total the figures. “Money is like manure,” he once said. “When it stacks up it stinks, but when you spread it around it makes things grow.”

Died. Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, 77, World War II hero and one of the great figures of British military history; of a rupture of the aorta; in Slough, England. Though Montgomery was more popular, Alexander was judged by many to be the outstanding Allied general of the war. In 1940 he conducted the evacuation at Dunkirk; in 1942 he commanded the British Army’s fighting retreat through the Burma jungles. Later that year, he masterminded the defeat of the Afrika Korps, and in 1944 he was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. As Ike put it: “Alexander was the ace card in the British Empire’s hand.”