Milestones: Jan. 24, 1964

Married. Richard Boiling, 47, newly divorced Democratic Congressman from Kansas City; and Jim Grant Akin, 35, blonde congressional lobbyist for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, daughter of a well-heeled Texas oilman and, until her divorce fortnight ago, wife of yet another; both for the second time; in Silver Spring, Md.

Married. Jack Rohe Howard, 53, president of the 18-newspaper Scripps-Howard chain, son of longtime president Roy Howard; and Eleanor Sallee Harris, 43, magazine writer; he for the second time; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Francisco (“Baby”) Pignatari, 46, multimillionaire Brazilian playboy: Ira von Furstenburg Pignatari, 23, whose first husband, Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 40, dislikes her second so much that he hid their two children until Ira had to choose between her babies and Baby; after three years of marriage, no children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Las Vegas.

Died. Terence Hanbury White, 57, classic chronicler of the Arthurian legend; of a heart attack; in Piraeus, Greece (see THE WORLD).

Died. Jack (“Big Gate”) Teagarden, 58, jazzman somewhere close to “Chicago,” between Dixieland and swing, one of the great trombonists of all time, a lumbering Texan famed since the late 1920s for his staccato, yet melodic instrumental style and a sad, reedy singing voice that made classics of songs of the period (Basin Street Blues), new favorites of old standbys (The St. James Infirmary); of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver; in New Orleans.

Died. Sheikh Bechara el Khoury, 74, first President of independent Lebanon from 1943 to 1952, who spearheaded his country’s revolt against the French, gave it one of the Middle East’s few stable regimes, but was forced to resign when opposition politicians charged (but could not prove) that his family was profiting from government deals in everything from cement to gold; of cancer; in Beirut.

Died. Arthur Augustus Allen, 78, Cornell University ornithologist who in 50 years of bird watching discovered many principles of avian psychology (birds are shocked to see themselves in mirrors, sometimes suffer from inferiority complexes), was the first to raise the ruffed grouse in captivity, locate the nesting place of the bristle-thighed curlew, record successfully the call of the whooping crane; of a heart attack; in Ithaca, N.Y.