Milestones: Jun. 29, 1962

Married. Ensign Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, 23, F.D.R.’s grandson, who was christened in the White House in 1939; and Grace Rumsey Goodyear, 21, Smith College sophomore; in Darien, Conn.

Married. Jaime Ortiz Patiño, 33, heir to a Bolivian tin fortune; and Nada Takla, 21, a Levantine beauty he met while in Lebanon last summer for a bridge tournament; he for the second time (his first: Manhattan Playgirl Joanne Connelley Sweeny, who died in 1957 while divorce suits were pending); in Geneva.

Married. Virginia (“Ginny”) Simms, 43,radio and cinema singer of another day; and her real estate partner. Don Eastvold, 45, formerly attorney general of Washington State and the famed “man with the book” at the 1952 Republican convention; she for the third time, he for the second; in Palm Springs.

Married. Jane Froman, 44, throaty songstress (With a Song in My Heart) who made a gallant comeback from near-death in a 1943 plane crash; and Rowland Smith 55, newspaperman in Columbia. Mo.; she for the third time, he for the second; in Columbia. Mo.

Married. René Bouché. 56, Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover painter (Jean Kerr, John F. Kennedy, Sophia Loren); and Anne Denise Alicia Lawson-Johnston, 34, a former editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in London.

Divorced. Philip H. Willkie, 42, banker-lawyer son of Wendell: by Rosalie Heffelfinger Willkie, 38, who testified that he abandoned her in Tokyo last year while on a world tour; after eleven years of marriage, three sons; in New Castle, Ind.

Died. Reese Hale Taylor, 61, strapping, energetic president of Union Oil Co., one of the big independents, which he directed for 23 years of bounding growth (from $78.1 million to $447.4 million annual volume), tireless man about California, where he was vice president of the Hollywood Bowl Association, former president of Santa Anita race track, a tennis promoter, university and hospital trustee; of acute pancreatitis; in Los Angeles.

Died. Francis Higbee Case, 65, wispy, upright Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota since 1951 (after 14 years in the House), known for his 1946 House labor bill demanding tighter controls on union bargaining, which though vetoed by President Truman, was the precursor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. A conscientious lawmaker whose major interests were water conservation and development of the Missouri River basin. Case rocked the Senate by rising during a 1956 debate on a natural gas bill to make a speech implying that gas producers had attempted to buy his vote, leading President Eisenhower to veto the bill and the Senate to investigate “campaign contributions” from gas lobbyists.

Died. Frank Borzage, 67, pioneer movie director, winner of Hollywood’s first Academy Award for Seventh Heaven in 1927, and again in 1931 for Bad Girl; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

Died. Somdej Pra Ariyawongsakhatayana (means Nobly descended and accomplished in intelligence), 74, Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, spiritual leader of 25 million Thai Buddhists, who in 1961 became the first Patriarch to visit the U.S.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bangkok.

Died. Mario Crespi, 82, multimillionaire co-owner (with his two surviving brothers, Aldo and Vittorio) of Milan’s staid daily Cornere della Sera, Italy’s biggest (circ. 450,000), most influential paper, a landowner, industrialist and art collector; after a long illness; in Milan.

Died. Alta Rockefeller Prentice, 91, last surviving of John D. Rockefeller’s five children, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s aunt, who, in the family tradition of philanthropy, shared her wealth with settlement houses, hospitals and museums; after a long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Mwamikazi Bujana Elisabeth Mwakamarongu, venerable regent of some 250,000 Neweshe Bashi tribesmen of the Congo’s Kivu province; after a long illness; in Ngweshe, Kivu. Her age, according to her great-grandson, King Pierre Ndatabaye, “certainly more than 100, probably around 130.”