Milestones: Jan. 5, 1968

Married. Harry James, 51, top trumpeter and big-band leader in the 1940s and early '50s, now making the Las Vegas scene swing; and Joan Boyd, 27, former Vegas showgirl; he for the third time (the others: Singer Louise Tobin, Actress Betty Grable), she for the second; in Reno.

Died. Max Miller, 68, author of I Cover the Waterfront and 26 other books; following two strokes; in La Jolla, Calif. The success of Waterfront, a collection of vignettes drawn from assignments as a San Diego reporter, enabled Miller to give up newspapering, but he always...

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