Milestones, Aug. 31, 1959

Married. Steven Clark Rockefeller, 23, second son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller; and Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, former maid in the Rockefeller's Manhattan household; in Sogne, Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Marriage Revealed. Sir Thomas Beecham, So, lordly British conductor; and Shirley Hudson, 27, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Zurich, Switzerland, on Aug. 10.

Died. Roy Wright, 42. at 13 the youngest of the "Scottsboro boys," whose sensational 1931 trial* became a landmark in the struggle for Negro rights; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his wife in...

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