Milestones: May 3, 1963

Married. Brenda Lee (real name: Brenda Mae Tarpley), 18, tot-sized teen singer whose belting, bluesy voice makes her sound twice her age; and Charles Ronald Shacklett, 18, son of a Nashville city councilman; in Nashville.

Married. Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel, 26, twelfth in the line of succession to the British throne; and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, commoner second son of the twelfth Earl of Airlie; in Westminster Abbey, London (see THE WORLD).

Married. Johnny Weissmuller, 57, Hollywood's first talkie Tarzan; and Maria Brock, 42, thrice previously wed actress who becomes his fifth Jane; in Las Vegas.

Died. Sir Dennis Holme Robertson,...

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