Milestones: May 27, 1966

Married. Christina Crawford, 26, sometime actress and the eldest of four adopted children raised by Joan Crawford; and Harvey Medlinsky, 35, Broadway stage manager; in Manhattan.

Married. Melina Mercouri, 40, who makes a virtue out of vice (Never on Sunday, Topkapi); and Director Jules Dassin, 54, her constant companion for ten years; both for the second time; in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Died. Randy Turpin, 37, prizefighter son of a white Englishwoman and a British Guianan merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later...

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