Milestones, Aug. 16, 1954

Married. John Jacob Astor III, 42, whose fortune, inherited from his great-great-grandfather, is estimated at $70 million; and Dolores Margaret ("Dolly") Fullman, 26, blonde Miami divorcee; he for the third time, she for the second; in Arlington, Va.

Married. Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 57, Republican governor of California; and Mrs. Virginia Carlson, 35; both for the second time; in Los Angeles.

Died. Emilie Dionne, 20, once the gay est and most active of Canada's famed quintuplets, in later years the quietest and shyest; following a series of epileptic seizures; in Ste. Agathe, Que. (see THE...

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