Milestones, Nov. 28, 1960

Born. To Pat Suzuki, 29, tiny (4 ft. 11 in.), brassy-voiced singer who made it big in Broadway’s Flower Drum Song, and Mark Shaw, 38, fashion photographer: their first child, a son; in New York. Name: Joseph. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz.

Married. David Michael Mountbatten, 41, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of England’s royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway.

Married. Sammy Davis Jr., 34, high-powered, high-strung Negro entertainer; and Swedish-born Cinemactress May Britt (real name: Maybritt Wilkens), 24; both for the second time; in Hollywood.

Died. Clark Gable, 59, alltime cinemattraction (lifetime box-office gross: $100 million), whose leading ladies spanned the era from Jean Harlow to Marilyn Monroe; of a heart attack; in Hollywood (see SHOW BUSINESS).

Died. Upton Close (real name: Josef Washington Hall), 66, retired war correspondent, author and radio commentator, whose obsessive orientalism led to his dismissal from NBC in 1944 because he demanded that U.S. put Asia first on list of wartime targets (rather than Europe); in the collision of his auto with a train; near Guadalajara, Mexico. A prescient analyst of Far East developments in the 1930s. Close predicted Japanese war aims and the rise of Red China. In the 1940s he helped organize reactionary American Action, Inc., bitterly opposed the U.N. (“All this idealism is the bunk”).

Died. Fu Tak-iam, 67, who started as a Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek—a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing the boy’s ear.

Died. Paul Faure, 82, former secretary-general of the French Socialist Party, who espoused the then traditional socialist policy of disarmament on the eve of World War II in opposition to Fellow Socialist ex-Premier Leon Blum; of a heart attack; in Paris.