Milestones: Aug. 28, 1964

Married. Philip Crosby, 30, one of the four Let’s-Sing-Like-Bing brothers; and Mary Joyce Gabbard, 24, California airline stewardess; both for the second time; in Las Vegas.

Married. Edie Adams, 35, kittenish nightclub comedienne and cinemactress, widow of the late cigar-chomping Ernie Kovacs; and Marty Mills, 37, Manhattan music publisher; she for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Divorced. By Dinah Shore, 47, TV’s old-fashioned girl: Maurice Smith, 43, Palm Springs contractor; after one year of marriage, no children; in Indio, Calif.

Died. Vic Oliver, 66, British comedian and former husband (1936-45) of Winston Churchill’s daughter Sarah, a music hall star who doubled up U.S. and British audiences with his hilarious piano and violin spoofs of long-haired recitals; of a heart attack; in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Died. Palmiro Togliatti, 71, boss of Italy’s Communist Party since World War II; following a stroke; near Yalta, Russia (see THE WORLD).

Died. Oscar (“Happy”) Felsch, 73, key figure in the 1919 Chicago “Black Sox” baseball scandal, the team’s shagging center fielder who unwittingly broke open the mess, admitted helping throw the World Series to Cincinnati when he fell for a reporter’s “all-the-others-have-confessed” ruse and angrily blurted: “Why those wise guys! At least I already have my $5,000”; of a liver ailment; in Milwaukee.

Died. Major General David Grant, 73, first surgeon general of the Air Force (1941-46), who, in an age of unpressurized cabins, managed to sell a skeptical War Department on airborne hospital planes, by the end of World War II had organized an air shuttle of 4,000 casualties a month across the Atlantic and brought the first litter-carrying helicopters to the front; of cancer; in Winter Park, Fla.

Died. William Keck, 84, oil tycoon, a crusty California wildcatter who hit it big near Los Angeles in 1922, went on to make his family-controlled company, Superior Oil, one of the world’s largest independent producers and to amass a $250 million fortune, the small change from which he used to support such causes as those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy; in Los Angeles.

Died. Gerardo Murillo (assumed name: Dr. Atl), 89, pioneer Mexican landscape and folk artist, who kindled the artistic fires in Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros; of a heart attack; in Mexico City (see ART).