Milestones: Apr. 28, 1961

Married. Gail Whitney, 22, daughter of Millionaire Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Louis Stur, 36, Hungarian-born former economics teacher, now assistant manager of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Lodge, Gail's home since her 1959 divorce from Plymouth Oil Heir Richard Cowell; in Elko, Nevada.

Divorced. Sheppard King III, 35, the Texas playboy who turned Moslem to marry his second wife, an Egyptian belly dancer; by Third Wife Mona Johnson King, 38, a former U.S. Government typist; after five years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico.

Died. James Melton, 57, handsome strapping (6 ft. 2½...

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