Milestones: May 15, 1964

Married. Durie Desloge, 22, daughter of Palm Beach Socialite Durie Desloge Shevlin; and Roderic Iain Bullough, 28, London blueblood, Oxonian, former Coldstream Guardsman; in Manhattan.

Died. Rico Lebrun, 63, Italian-born West Coast painter and sculptor, a wistful, wiry Neapolitan whose lifelong preoccupation with the grotesque and the macabre led critics to think of him as a 20th century Goya, produced a savage, semi-abstract body of work illustrating grim themes classic and modern, from Dante's Inferno and the Crucifixion to Dachau and Buchenwald; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

Died. Franklin Delavergne Jones, 65, Pennsylvania chemist who in 1944 discovered the nation's most widely used...

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