Milestones, Aug. 1, 1960

Born. To Steven Clark Rockefeller, 24, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s second son and Union Theological Seminary graduate student; and Anne-Marie (“Mia”) Rasmussen Rockefeller, 22, Norwegian grocer’s daughter and onetime Rockefeller family maid: their first child (Nelson’s sixth grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: Steven Clark Jr.

Married. Princess Diane of France, 20, sixth of eleven children of the Count of Paris, Bourbon pretender to the French throne; and Duke Carl, 23, the Duke of Württemberg’s second son, scion of one of Europe’s oldest (dating back to 1032) and wealthiest (among the holdings: 45 farms, twelve vineyards, forests totaling 45,000 acres) royal clans; in Altshausen Castle near Saulgau, Germany.

Married. Deborah Kerr, 38, Scottish-born cinemactress (From Here to Eternity, Tea and Sympathy); and Peter Viertel, 40, Austrian-born screenwriter (The Sun Also Rises, African Queen); she for the second time, he for the third (her first: British TV Producer Anthony Bartley; his first: French Fashion Model Bettina); in Klosters, Switzerland.

Died. J. Edward King, 56, longtime general manager of TIME Inc.’s subscription service division in Chicago and a vice president of the parent corporation since 1954, who in 1946 helped supervise the first changeover from manual to mechanical subscription handling in the publishing field and the development of subsequent electronic speedups in tabulation and mailing operations covering 11 million subscribers; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale, Ill.

Died. Al Hoffman, 57, top Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist, a Russian-born onetime Seattle bandleader (“I was the world’s worst drummer”), who minted—with various collaborators—Mairzy Doats, Heartaches, If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake, Takes Two to Tango, and Papa Loves Mambo; after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. André Coyne, 69, French engineer and developer of the revolutionary thin-walled arch dam, whose designs have been used on five continents, include Rhodesia’s giant new Kariba project and France’s ill-fated Malpasset dam which gave way last December taking 421 lives, a disaster that French investigators attribute to a landslide rather than faulty design; following surgery; in Paris.

Died. Herbert A. Kent, 73, president of P. Lorillard Co. from 1942 to 1952, board chairman the following three years, a proponent, in his 49 years with the company, of mild cigarettes and soft-sell advertising (including the 1942 Old Gold slogan: “For a treat instead of a treatment”); of a heart attack; in Milan, Italy.

Died. Dr. William Gordon Lennox, 76, a world leader in epilepsy research during his 36 years on the Harvard Medical School staff, president of the International League Against Epilepsy from 1935 to 1949; of a stroke; in Boston. In 1920, when the eight-year-old daughter of his best friend was stricken with epilepsy, Dr.

Lennox ended a four-year career as a medical missionary in Peking, returned to the U.S. to study the disease, about which he found “an element of fear and hopelessness that was shocking.” By 1951 the girl had herself become a top physician in the fight on epilepsy, and Dr. Lennox could report that “with new methods and medicines, three-fourths of the sufferers can be relieved of three-fourths of their seizures, and many are completely relieved.” Died. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, 80, one of the original boss ladies of U.S. business, longtime president of cosmetics maker Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc., who took over on the death of her first husband (Vincent B. Thomas) in 1918, became in 1937 the nation’s highest-paid ($100,000) woman executive, sold out to Lever Brothers in 1947; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Constance Adams DeMille, 87, publicity-shunning wife of Hollywood’s late great showman, Cecil B. DeMille; of pneumonia ; in Hollywood. An actress over the protests of her New Jersey judge father, she married DeMille in 1902, two years after they had met in the cast of the Charles Frohman melodrama, Hearts Are Trumps, trouped with him for several years before he entered producing and theater management. In 1913, when DeMille gave up the stage altogether for moviemaking, she told him, “Do what you think right and I will be with you” — she was for almost 57 years until his death last year, a record of sorts for Hollywood.

Died. Edward Francis McGrady, 88, shrewd, head-banging labor-relations expert and strike-settling Government troubleshooter in both world wars, an F.D.R. crony who became a take-charge Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1937 (once provoking Boss Frances Perkins to snort, “Now, now, Mr. McGrady, I’m the Secretary of Labor”); of advanced cerebral artery disease; in Newtonville, Mass. A onetime Harvard College boxing instructor, newspaper pressman, Massachusetts state legislator and A.F.L. Washington lobbyist (1919-33), McGrady left fulltime Government service in 1937 to become an RCA vice president, stayed on as a director until last year.

Died. The Right Rev. Edward Lambe Parsons, 92, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of California from 1924 until retirement in 1941, outspoken advocate of uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches; after being ill with pneumonia; in San Francisco.