Milestones: Aug. 18, 1961

Marriage Revealed. Gertrude Augusta ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 37, onetime second-magnitude tennis attraction less famed for her overhead than her under wear; and Frank ("Bing") Simpson, 35, Los Angeles lawyer-yachtsman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Hawaii last month.

Died. Alexander Hilsberg, 61, Warsaw-born product of the St. Petersburg violin-prodigy assembly line (others: Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein) who served 20 years as concertmaster of the "ideal orchestra" of his youth, the Philadelphia, before taking over the New Orleans Symphony in 1952; of heart and kidney disease; in Camden, Me.

Died....

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