Milestones: Mar. 25, 1966

Born. To Susan Strasberg, 27, Broadway's once-shining Anne Frank (1955) and ever-suffering screen ingenue (Kapo), and Chris Jones, 25, TV's Jesse James: their first child, a daughter, in Los Angeles.

Died. Abraham M. Saperstein, 63, founder and coach of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, who took over the Negro club in 1925 when it was Chicago's Savoy Big Five, renamed it, and toured it through the U.S. while the team developed the razzle-dazzle, whoop-dribble-and-holler technique that was originally adopted to save the players' legs (they play some 340 games a year) but later became the style which set spectators roaring in 87...

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