Milestones: Aug. 2, 1963

Married. Mamie Spears Reynolds, 20, daughter of North Carolina's late Senator Robert Reynolds, who at four inherited $10 million from her grandmother Evalyn Walsh McLean;* and Luigi Chinetti Jr., 20, partner with his father, a onetime auto racer, in the U.S. Ferrari franchise; in Manhattan.

Died. Bernard Hamilton Stauffer, 63, founder of Stauffer Laboratories, and developer (in 1938) of the first big-time reducing machines, who parleyed his jiggling "Magic Couches" into a nationwide chain of 250 franchised salons before the Federal Trade Commission charged in 1960 that his machines "were of no value in reducing weight," after which business suffered a sharp...

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