Milestones: Oct. 12, 1962

Married. John Randolph Hearst Jr., 28, whilom journalist and grandson of William Randolph Hearst; and Patricia Lusk Tenny, 23, onetime Hearst magazine trainee; in Manhattan.

Died. Frank Lovejoy, 50, character actor, last seen on Broadway as the bigoted Senator in The Best Man; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Ludwig Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own...

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