Milestones: Oct. 20, 1961

Married. Upton Beall Sinclair, 83, prolific (74 books) author whose muckraking, socialistic crusades made him the literary scourge of the haves (The Jungle, 1906) but tempered sufficiently to win him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943 (Dragon's Teeth): and Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis, 79, a widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Claremont, Calif.

Divorce Revealed. Habib Bourguiba, 58, President of the Republic of Tunisia, who, among other reforms, abolished polygamy; from Moufida Bourguiba, 72, his wife since 1926, mother of Habib Bourguiba Jr., Tunisia's ambassador to the U.S., Canada; in a French-style civil court last spring. Also revealed:...

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