Milestones: Aug. 9, 1963

Born. To Victoria de los Angeles, 38, black-eyed Spanish soprano; and Enrique Magrina, 39, her manager-husband; their first child, a son; after 15 years of marriage; in Barcelona.

Married. Claudia Martin, 19, starlet daughter of Singer Dean Martin; and Gavin Murrell, 23, would-be cinemactor; in a surprise elopement that, said Mrs. Martin, left Daddy Dino livid (“You couldn’t print what he said when he heard the news”); in Las Vegas.

Married. Evelyn Mitchell, 53, longtime secretary to Aluminum King Arthur Vining Davis, who left her $1,000,000 in cash when he died last fall, plus his Biscayne Bay mansion and a lifetime income;, and Terence George Campbell, Florida real estate man: he for the second time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. William Orville Douglas, 64, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1939; by Mercedes Davidson Douglas, 46, his second wife; after 81 years of marriage, no children; on grounds of cruelty (she said he told her he couldn’t stand to have her around); in Goldendale, Wash.

Died. Philip Leslie Graham, 48, publisher of the Washington Post and Newsweek; by his own hand (shotgun); near Marshall, Va. (see PRESS).

Died. Stephen Thomas Ward, 50, Britain’s prince of ponces; by his own hand (sleeping pills); in London (see THE WORLD).

Died. Mark Winfield Cresap Jr., 53, who until July 15 was president of Westinghouse Electric Corp., a Harvard Business School graduate who in 1951 left the industrial consultant firm he helped found (Cresap, McCormick & Paget) to revamp the Westinghouse management structure, and in his five years as president brought the company into the forefront of nuclear development; following surgery for a gastric hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Theodore Roethke, 55, poet and professor of English at the University of Washington, who built his spare verse upon recollections of his hothouse childhood (his father was a commercial gardener in Saginaw, Mich.), blending the imagery of orchid, loam and garden creature with deceptively simple singsong; of a heart attack; on Bainbridge Island, in Puget Sound, Wash.

Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 61, author, anthropologist and a descendant of the Founding Fathers, who devoted his life to the plight of the American Indian, eloquently presenting it first in his 1929 novel, Laughing Boy, then as longtime head of the Association on Indian Affairs, lobbying ceaselessly to win the Indians less fuzzy paternalism and more schools, medical care and opportunity; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque.

Died. James David Zellerbach, 71, chairman of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., world’s second largest forest-products firm, U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1956 to 1960, a slight, bespectacled Californian, who took over the family company in 1938, helped its sales grow to nearly $600 million, found time for civic enterprises (the San Francisco Symphony, Golden Gateway redevelopment plan), served ably in a dozen public posts and produced in his private vineyard a California wine that made French diplomats swallow respectfully; of a brain tumor; in San Francisco.

Died. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward, 72, German auto pioneer; of a heart ailment; in Bremen. A compact (5 ft. 4 in.) engineering genius, Borgward first made his mark in 1924 with a three-wheeled delivery truck, after World War II drove his firm to sixth place among West Germany’s automakers by pouring millions into the production of mite-sized models such as the Minicar, in 1961, when the bug fad faded, went into bankruptcy.

Died. Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, 80, politician, last surviving member of Hoover’s Cabinet, and outspoken U.S. envoy to China; in Santa Fe. The son of Irish immigrants, Hurley was born in Oklahoma Indian territory, worked as a cowboy and miner before making a fortune in oil and real estate, served as Hoover’s War Secretary, became F.D.R.’s refreshingly direct envoy to Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek (“You ain’t seen nothing yet,” he snorted, when Stalin boasted of Russian steel mills. “You oughta see ours”), resigned as Ambassador to China when his demand for more resolute support for the Communist-pressed Kuomintang was ignored, and “retired” to New Mexico to run unsuccessfully for Senator and pile up yet another fortune—in uranium.

Died. Edgar Sengier, 83, Belgian metals magnate, longtime (1932-1950) top executive of the Congo’s Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, $198 million mining cartel (copper, cobalt, radium); of a heart attack; in Cannes, France. Sengier scored his most foresighted coup in 1940, when, acting on a tip from a British physicist, he shipped 1,250 tons of uranium ore from Africa to a Staten Island warehouse, later astounded U.S. scientists who came in search of raw material for a top-secret project, with “I have been waiting for you,” and sold them the ore that went into Fermi’s squash court and Hiroshima’s bombs.